Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curriculum is where the real lux and the real veritas linger. "Give me wherewith to stand and I will move the world." So we cry unto you; but as a University you will not hear--you nod wisely, and build your requirements for the average man who does not exist, and think not at all of creating that place on which the genius, which is each one of us who come to Yale,--may stand. --Maxwell Jo. Foster in the Yale Literary Magazine...
...mediums bodies "Ectoplasm," he explained, "is the raw material of psychic phenomena. Science knows nothing about it. When analyzed, however, it has been found to consist of materials which are present in the human body, and of something else, possibly other, as well as a material not known to exist in any organic substance. It dissolves in the light, hence it is necessary to conduct seances in the dark...
...bring up the Employment and Appointment offices seems almost as unnecessary as to call attention to Widener Library. Everyone knows that they exist, and if they are needed, they will be used--supposedly. Yet there are many Freshmen apparently who have scarcely heard of the Student Employment Office; and there are Seniors who have forgotten the existence of that agency, and as yet know little or nothing about the graduate bureaus, the University and Alumni Appointment offices...
...area basis of developing city transit had been followed from the beginning, many of the most objectionable features of city life would not exist today. Population congestion, housing congestion, business congestion, manufacturing congestion, amusement congestion, and the great bogey of our transit problem--the rush hour congestion, all would be reduced to a minimum or eliminated. Everybody would be more comfortable, healthier and happier. Our people would not be living so much in layers. Instead most people would be in their own homes spread out through the open country, thus making living conditions more ideal
...long will that class of writing crowd all the rest out of the market. There must be well-grounded appreciation, and some effort to meet the author half-way, before anything lasting can be accomplished. St. John Ervine's suggested moratorium of the drama is significant. Literature cannot exist as a series of pre-digested mental pellets...