Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penn is not completely reliant on power. In addition to the adoption of the Harlow offense, the team has two dangerous open field runners in Frank Reagan and Ed Allen, and Harlan Gustafson is probably the most spectacular receiver in Ivy League circles...
...first time in the many years that I have been a reader of TIME I regret the anonymity of your writers. ... It requires an intellect outstandingly brilliant and out standingly self-reliant to be able and daring enough to sum up the lifelong teaching of "America's Greatest Philosopher" [John Dewey] with a statement at the same time devastating and so unobtrusive that most readers will pass it by: "exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher" [TIME...
Sanely regarded, it seems that Harvard indifferences is nothing more than New England individualism, whereby each leaves the other to his business, which he expects is much like his own. Because of this self-reliant way of pursuing education, Harvard does not believe in football rallies or Junior proms. Yet when the need arises, it can organize into a peace demonstration, riot, or Class Day parade...
Nursing a broken leg received in the plane crash which cost her husband's life last month (TIME, Jan. 20), self-reliant Explorer Osa Johnson declared in a Los Angeles hospital that she would resume picture-taking in the African jungle, would next trek through the Belgian Congo. Said she: "I am quite capable of managing an expedition by myself...
...Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin monoplanes. Gone forever are goggles and helmet...