Word: depends
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with good, that is to say, by the influence of strong men who are not afraid of being tempted because they can resist temptation. Pure, strong men then may have a great influence. They may really cure sick or feeble souls. The moral strength of the college does not depend on the extermination of evil here. That is not to be hoped for. It depends rather on the number of strong men who can face tempation and resist...
...success of a man's business, he insisted, was a practical illustration of the theory of the survival of the fittest; that man will always reach the top of the ladder who is best able to adapt himself to the requirements of whatever position may offer. It does not depend upon how much he may know, but upon how much of his knowledge he can make of use to himself...
After a long season of hard training the work of the freshman eleven will end today. The game should be more interesting than previous freshman contests for the reason that the result in all probability will depend on the skill and the knowledge of football tactics shown by the two elevens, rather than on pure physical strength or star individual playing, as has often been the case. The agreement by which 'varsity players are excluded from the team is one of the best reforms of the year. Not only does it do away with danger which has attended the playing...
...success of the class game this afternoon will depend very much on whether or not the spectators are kept back of the side-lines...
...where are we to look for the phenomena by which we are to explain man's ideas about himself? Certainly not in language alone, as Max Muller would hold, but in rites, usages, and customs. But here lies the difficulty, that these depend upon the modes of thought, analogies and impressions which we can no longer share...