Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Squalus went down, the guilty valve failed to open properly but had never failed to close. It was disassembled, supposedly put in perfect order. On the Squalus and her sister boats, this valve is outside the hull, near the conning tower and invisible to those inside, who must depend on signal lights to know whether it is open or closed. The electrical signal system could have lied "if the mechanism was out of order...
...present world crisis is not due to bad heredity, nor to inexorable nature, nor to the Devil, but to bad education in cultivating habits of fear, intolerance and hate of alien individuals and races, of foreign religions, nations and ideologies. The peace and progress of mankind depend on the acquiring of habits that make for peace and progress...
...Salop's success does not depend merely on price-cutting. Even more spectacular is what he does to a book's appearance. A collection of Ibsen plays (his first big success) was made from Modern Library plates, but reprinted on larger, thicker paper, with the imprint: Norwegian Publications, Oslo, Norway. Another Salop success was a 1,136-page volume titled Five Sinners and a Saint priced at $1.69. Inside this new literary package readers discovered six time-worn staples-the autobiographies of Madame P'ompadour, Benvenuto Cellini, De Quincey, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, St. Augustine. Another time Salop...
...existence of sex hormones is one of the most widely-known discoveries of modern biology. Androsterone and testosterone make a man manly, progesterone and estrone make a woman womanly. But in man and other highly evolved animals, the ordinary processes of life depend on other hormones which are non-sexual-such as insulin, the sparkplug hormone from the pancreas. Growth, according to the Carnegie Institution's Oscar Riddle, is due to a combined action of two pituitary hormones, prolactin and thyrotropin...
Turning to the various positions which will be occupied by the members of the graduating class in the future, President Conant declared that "The fate of our free institutions may well depend quite as much on the honesty, conscientiousness and effectiveness of the man of business as on the proposals of the politician and the administrative decisions of the government official...