Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...illustration of the hap-hazard legislation in the United States is that practically the whole mass of paper money is made to depend for convertibility upon gold. For the legal tender notes are redeemable in gold and the silver certificates, circulating side by side, are practically as good as legal tenders and the national bank notes are convertible into the latter. But the United States has never been able to find an effective method for maintaining the gold reserve. In fact, the trouble lies in the fact that the U. S. treasury performs two functions that should never be united...
Yesterday afternoon the foreman in the Hemenway Gymnasium said that all the work on the new addition would undoubtedly be finished by this evening and that the date for the opening would depend on Dr. Sargent and Mr. Hemenway. Mr. Francis Dohs, the new instructor who has been engaged to help Dr. Sargent with his classes will have charge of the heavy exercises and a portion of the light...
...undertaken, but the Cycling Association hope, if the college gives them some support, to make it a success. The approval of the Athletic Committee has been received for this scheme, but with the condition that the association pay its own expenses. The success of the event then will largely depend on the contributions of the college. This meet will be held on the new bicycle track now in construction at Cambridgeport if it is finished in time. By using this track, which is specially built for bicycle racing, the large number of accidents which has always occurred at bicycle races...
Bloomington, fullback, is a strong punter, and on him Michigan will depend for her kicking. He weighs 167 pounds...
...CRIMSON has spoken in strong terms of the bad state of things at the post office and certain improvements are obviously necessary. But the exact character must depend entirely on who the future tenant is to be. Until the government, which up to this time has shown a shameful lack of attention to communications addressed to it concerning the state of the office, makes its intentions known, it is of course impossible for anything to be done...