Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...school, out of work," democracy has had very little meaning. To the sixteen million others of similar age, in schools, on farms, or employed in bare-subsistence jobs, prospects for living seem hardly less bleak. Yet it is upon these young people that America must depend for its defense--in war and in peace alike...
...seismograph. The exigencies of movie production often require that successive scenes in the same room be shot weeks apart. The most accurate instruments used to record the intensity of light have a wide margin of error; so at least 25% of the factors involved in reconstructing a similar setting depend on the sensitivity of the cameraman. The experts say you have to "feel...
...Problems in the Balkans" was the subject of Professor William L. Langer '15, who emphasized the enigmatic role of Soviet Russia in dictating the foreign, policy of the Balkan nations, Turkey, he noted, holds the key to the situation, but its actions must depend on those of the U.S.S.R...
...success of U. S. defense preparations may depend on more than loyalty-on the enthusiastic support and initiative of businessmen. The problem of national unity in 1940 may require that many a loyal citizen somehow be given a new faith in the Roosevelt administration...
...start object lessons in charity; 2) to start programs for others to carry on; 3) to start others giving by giving himself. But he was against setting up any charitable foundation "in perpetuity." Said Rockefeller: "Perpetuity is a pretty long time." With age John D. Sr. came to depend more & more on John D. Jr. to run his empire. He thought the young man did his job very well. But he ruthlessly curbed any tendency to spendthriftness...