Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This plan, Mr. Hanson believes, would do away with the menace of the foreign colonies which exist in so many parts of the United States and which operate so efficiently to prevent immigrants from learning Americanization and from becoming loyal citizens...
Colleges ought to be laboratories for experimentation in discussion and thought. Radicals are valuable to any college community because they challenge and make us justify the existing order. If radicals are needed to stir students from their lethargy, to make them think and analyze the important subjects of the day, let us have more of them, If they didn't exist the world would decay from too much self-satisfaction...
...that pride that makes famous Englishmen dissent from the enraged majority no matter how hot the issue? In a time like this to be free means for a while to be misunderstood. Why not? Is the intellectual life to be all flabby, with no rugged stretches? Is hardihood to exist only in the body? Let us hear the drum music of our own convictions. The ultimate call just now is to spirit. What can a man do better than to refuse to sell his integrity for a mean quiescence? NORMAN HAPGOOD IN THE NEW REPUBLIC...
...Balkan problem underlies more previous wars than any other international difficulty. If we are to hope for real results from the League of Nations we must apply all our experience as a nation to this hotbed in Southwestern Europe. There must exist a solution to the problem. If we emphasized the idea of a federation with local autonomy but a common purpose, rather than self-determination, we should accomplish much towards peace. And what country is in a better position to discuss federalism than the United States? The problem of the thirteen colonies was only a simplified version...
There is no other artist like Blake: such strange, impressionistic color schemes and visionary books cannot be imitated. The spirit of Blake could exist in no other man. To miss seeing this complete collection of his works now means to miss seeing them forever, because it will probably be impossible to get together again books from so many private collections...