Word: depends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another type of bargain-hunting centred about movie companies which sold off on the outbreak of war because they depend on belligerents for as high as 40% of their gross from pictures. Last week, shrewd buying was anticipating new strength in movies on an offsetting increase in U. S. moviehouse attendance...
...sells arms to the Allies, the whole U. S. economy will become dependent on war trade-business will depend on it for profits, labor for jobs, possibly even lenders for the security of their loans-and eventually the U. S. will have to go to war to save its customers. Rebuttal: Embargo or no embargo, the U. S. is going to have a huge war trade, for the Allies will need war materials. In the last war only 10% to 25% of the Allied purchases in the U. S. were arms. If the Allies cannot get arms, they will take...
There is, of course, the third possibility to be considered-that the Embargo will be abolished and no legislation enacted to take its place. In that case the United States would have to depend on International Law to protect its neutrality; what is International law has best been described by Charles A. Beard-"a veritable jumble of claims, assertions . . . and hot contentions." These then are the bare facts. In themselves they point in no definite direction, yet they must underlie any valid opinion on the neutrality issue...
...records of the experimental group showed a fundamental change in reading habits, and also in reading attitude, it was reported last year. The students began for the first time to exercise control over the eye movements in reading. How permanent these changes will prove to be will quite certainly depend on the intentions of the learners and will, of course, vary with the individuals, it was said...
...Hara's moral scheme is dependable as far as it goes. But his writing is limited by the excellence of his dislikes. His ear for heeltalk is so mercilessly accurate that some of the stories depend on that alone (e.g., "But one night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie, and from then on. See what I mean? Isn't she marvelous? She's really primitive."). The company so neatly evoked, is a company whose average intelligence rises only slightly above the threshold of human consciousness...