Word: depends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little scenes within scenes in which the Comedie Francaise revels. The play is a show-piece. It has the further advantage for foreign consumption that it is readily understood. The enunciation of the players is nicely turned to aid foreign ears. But it is not necessary to depend upon the actors' speech. There is the program to fall back upon; and the very situations themselves are usually self-explanatory...
...loom over-whelmingly large; the activities of the mind are dwarfed into insignificance. It is the same psychology which remains to a less extent behind the attitude of some undergraduates toward the college. It is the same psychology which makes the mention of the college in the metropolitan newspapers depend in nine cases out of ten upon athletic achievement. Opposed to it is the increasing undergraduate interest in the curriculum, in educational experiments, in the expression of student opinion, in the amazing revival of intercollegiate debating in the last few years, in literary, dramatic and journalistic achievement...
...have always since early youth been an inveterate newspaper and magazine reader, but on attaining the age of understanding definite needs and capacities, dropped all such reading matter, and now depend on TIME to keep me a citizen of the world. I also read the Literary Digest (skipping current events and foreign news), for a more detailed account of the drama and certain personal notes which are very often the choice selection of the American, which magazine (the American) I do not wish to disparage, nevertheless, it is an awful dose to digest as a whole, for grownups...
TIME, Nov. 29, p. 17, col. 2 says par value 32.45c. Now I read TIME a lot and depend on you fellows for facts, not fiction, and I don't want you to be spoofing...
...revised plan for obtaining honors in English, which is published elsewhere in these columns contains two points of particular significance. The division, which has been made between general and special honors does not depend upon a difference in course requirements, which are almost identical, but upon the abolition of compulsory Anglo-Saxon in the general field and upon the additional requirement in that field set forth in the statement that, "it is expected that candidates under this plan shall show evidence of especially wide rending...