Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...test, according to M. Reynaud, is whether everyone in France pitches in to increase production, especially of war materials. "Today that which is normal is insufficient," keynoted Paul Reynaud. "Even ahead of military victory, our diplomatic success will depend above all on our force-on the number of tanks, of guns, of airplanes we have...
...vision or insight which was neither distorted nor crazy. He merely perceived the distortion and grotesqueness of all the elements which form the world; he saw an object as it existed "in itself," without the factors of perspective, or logical continuity, which after all are man-made and depend upon us for existence. He saw things as they were, alone, and then proceeded to reapply these principles of order to them on his canvases. And this entire process went on very naturally within him as he painted; if he was a madman he was a very keen-sighted and philosophic...
...Portfolio Baron Hankey told the House of Lords that, "It has not been rejected." A forced loan was out of the question, said Lord Hankey, while the Government is still trying to see whether the same object cannot be attained voluntarily. In retort last week Professor Keynes snorted: "To depend on voluntary methods, when the Treasury has to take half the national income, is comparable to relying on these methods to raise an army...
...Make yourselves worthy of great books, for your enjoyment of them will depend largely upon what you bring to them." "The feeling which a mother has for her infant is absolutely pure and beautiful...
...Liberal education," asserted Finley, "rests on the assumption that success in life must depend on as full an awareness as possible of a person's environment and tradition. This awareness should enable the liberally educated man to solve his own problems as well as any others he is called on to settle...