Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what extent this principle can be applied in such courses as Government I must depend largely on the examiners' estimate of the adequacy of the best examination the nature of the subject matter will enable them to draw...
...wide enough to take in five girls abreast. Another is that there is no adequate way of grading sounds so that the singing of the ensemble at the back of he stage will be less sonorous than that of the principals at the footlights. Another is that musical comedies depend for much of their effect on color, and color-production in cinemas has not yet been perfected even as well as sound. Last week three new singing-&-dancing pictures met these difficulties with varying success...
...Johnnie and Nellie Bly. Composed of a series of simple quatrains, the song has been altered and elaborated by so many artists, including John Barleycorn, that no one person can ever have heard or imagined all its verses. Yet the basic story has simple, tragic dignity which does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie loved Nellie Bly. So Frankie shot her man. "He was her man, but he done her wrong," explains every refrain. The verse at which singers usually break down in tears...
...electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean the dissolution of the suburbs, the population of seemingly inaccessible parts of the earth. Personal independence of drudgery, allowance for a doubled leisure, a more civilized manner of existence, all depend on the Dymaxion House. Mr. Fuller has created the possibility of a new civilization, a new world of people, one only wonders with Shaw what man would do with his new found leisure...
...whole question is being aired at present by the press and in the last analysis the decision as to whether such actions-shall be allowed to continue will depend largely on the attitude taken by the public...