Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course any self-respecting ghost actively engaged in the business at present will understand at once the importance of this new ruling. Methods of the Victorian Age can no longer be tolerated. To be a success as a ghost today a presence must not only exist; it must proclaim itself, communicate on every possible occasion and, when out of breath, be ready with silent visitations. It must also be prepared at any time to submit to scientific analysis. There is no telling when a call may come in for an interview with the Shrouded Lady of Edgely Manor, Hants...
...never expect such a favorable condition to exist again. In any future war to which we may be involved, the enemy must come from the sea in some direction; and, as stated above, the Navy cannot afford to wait in our harbors until the enemy arrives, but must go out to meet him, to occupy the ports or places on his probable line of approach, etc. To do this, the Navy must not only have suitable ressels to accompany the fighting vessels to carry fuel, ammunition and supplies, but there must be suitable vessels to transport troops to hold bases...
Suburban Conditions No Longer Exist...
...romance of the sea still lingers, in spite of steam and wireless. Mariners and fictioneers, between them, have kept alive the tradition that such natural monstrosities do exist. From the Hydra down, through Pliny's dragon which the army of Regulus besieged, and the great beast that Beowulf conquered in a battle to the death, famous stories have grown up around "facts" that science denies. The "sea-worm" was a very real object to the northern sailors, and it has flavored all the old literature of the ocean...
...denying the validity of the opposing arguments the University attempted to show that the abrogation of an international obligation is only warranted by the direst necessity, and such necessity in the present instance does not exist...