Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...complete dictator, can have little interest in preserving democracy. Economically Canada, the United States, and Central America are a unit in that the predominant part of the trade of this area moves North and South. But from Bravil down to the Antarctic we find countries that can not depend on inter-American trade exclusively; in fact, these countries can not live unless they export elsewhere. These countries in the lower half of South America would be the pawns in the hands of any conqueror of western Europe, despite the fact that they are proud nations not anxious to be ruled...
...major problem in the life of the new paper is finance. As yet no funds except the dollar joining fee have been collected. With the advertising prospects not too good, it will depend largely on voluntary backing for its life. However, with the strength of the groups backing it, it does not seem likely that the paper will be still-born...
This alumni body and this endowment are the decisive factors in settling the problem of the place of athletics in college. They mean that when the University needs a new library it doesn't have to depend on its football victories to gain its ends. They mean that it isn't the crowds at the Stadium that pay the Faculty its wages. And thanks to the alumni the H.A.A. is carefully hoarding a reserve athletic endowment, contributed over the last five years. Eventually the interest from this fund will be used to support the teams in the minor sports...
Awesome to fellow zanies is Allen's ability to concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs...
Weakened by the loss of four or five regulars of the 1939 campaign, and hampered by a poor turnout so far this year, Dunster's gridders look forward to an unimpressive season. Last year's third place winners will depend largely on George Varn, all-House back, Bill McGinniss, end, and Tom Eliot and Hal Smith, tackles...