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Word: exist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks like a forced fraternity system and it is no wonder that the editors of the Lampy and The Crimson are voicing protest. Fraternities can exist in America because they have freedom of selection--they can choose the people they want to live with as a more or less unified group and they have no one to blame but themselves if the group is not congenial. Under the Harvard "House Plan", if a group didn't turn out to be congenial (and most of them wouldn't) only the donors could be blamed and it would be "just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Syracuse Says Thumbs Down | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

...announcement of the Brown-Dartmouth lapse in gridiron relations starting next fall has been supplemented by the Boston newspapers with much speculation and ballyhoo concerning the 1929 Harvard coaching situation. Mr. Bingham's concise statement calms the troubled waters and points to the logical solution of whatever problems exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COACHES | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...reasons exist for lack of public sympathy for the toll bridge: 1) it charged cash to cross; 2) "Yankee" dollars built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Bridges v. Ferries | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...continental U. S. has little more than 1,300 formal airports and landing fields properly lighted and marked, although about 900 more are proposed and 4,000 casual ones exist (lots owned by municipalities, corporations, clubs, commissions and individuals). California has the most good fields, 143. Texas has 101, Pennsylvania 83, Ohio 62, Illinois 60, Oklahoma 46, New York 43, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Airports | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...inexhaustible reserve fund upon which all may freely draw. Therefore, although the Federal Reserve Board may frown upon the use of this reserve for speculative purposes, it cannot lose sight of the fact that the Federal Reserve banks are privately owned, are operating largely with private funds, and fundamentally exist for the sake of supplying money rather than withdrawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Federal Warning | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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