Word: depends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chinese journalist is a happy one. He is free from care and thought, and allows all the work of the establishment to be done by the pressman. The Chinese compositor has not yet arrived. The Chinese editor, like the rest of his countrymen, is imitative. He does not depend upon his brain for editorials, but translates them from all the contemporaneous American papers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment. The editorial room...
...English prose is, perhaps, the only means open to students who cannot afford to gain the cultivation offered by the composition courses. Even among standard authors a choice should be made. This is a point, however, which each student must exercise his individual taste. But upon his taste will depend, almost invariably, the character of his style...
...faculty. They average several dozen a week and cover a multitude of ailments from "cold feet" to incipient consumption. The faculty in its analogous position of liberal thought and conservative action, seems inclined to give these documents the best interpretation possible, and, in so far as they depend upon diplomatic wording, and harrowing statement, they are successful. As to the latter point, it seems curious that, while the faculty is callous to excuses of over study, they yield at once to the blandishments of cell-wall degeneration of the lung...
...gives us an illustration of what happens when the action of the heart is much reduced in frequency, or brought to a pause. This condition is called Syncope. This state may be produced by any violent shock to the nervous system. A large proportion of diseases of the heart depend upon circumstances over which we have no control. In 177 cases of consumption, examined in the Brompton Consumptive Hospital, the heart was found smaller than it should be, in more than one half of the cases. As the heart not only sends the blood through the body, but also receives...
...soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting to do in this way just what the newspapers are every day doing. The lecturer must depend upon the paper for his knowledge, and his work would be little more than a culling of news from its columns, something, it might be argued, which every intelligent reader does for himself. But unfortunately, unless men are thoroughly read in history they are often unable to realize the true...