Word: depends
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With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common man the fire and force of the sun itself...
After World War I, Picasso would depend wholly on himself and his feelings. The corollary was that Picasso gave feeling itself an extraordinary, self-regarding intensity, so that the most vivid images of braggadocio and rage, castration fear and sexual appetite in modern art still belong to the Spaniard. This frankness-allied with Picasso's power of metamorphosis, which linked every image together in a ravenous, animistic vitality-is without parallel among other artists...
Most college endowments are invested with far more caution than abandon--"prudence" is Cabot's favorite description--because the institutions will depend on them for money for generations into the future. But Harvard has received steady praise for its strategies of centralization and investing heavily in common stocks since the tenure of Treasurer George Putnam '49 began in 1973. With many universities searching for higher-yield investments after the inflationary years of the late '70s, Harvard has emerged as one of the heaviest and most diverse experimenters in the hunt for "modern" sources of funds...
...change is experimental, said Heather E. Cole, head librarian at Lamont and Hilles, and will depend partly on student use during the new hours She added that student monitors will make head counts during midterms this fall, as it is too early to determine the success of the change...
...revenue Cambridge could receive if the plan is implemented would depend on the percentage of lost tax money the state decided to replace, a spokesman for the joint legislative committee said...