Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intercourse should be indulged in, never thinking of any after effects, because they believe there will be none. They see no harm in it-science will protect them; and science generally does. . . . Whatever we may think of such conduct, the thing for us to notice is that it does exist, and that largely because of scientific knowledge many people are finding reasonable justification for doing things they never would have thought of a generation...
...Vassar is divided into many cliques. This is a deplorable, but unavoidable fact. It is not possible, it seems to me, for any general sociability to exist, for birds of a feather must flock together' and you cannot make them do otherwise...
...course the French Queen, King and courtiers were all hallucinations ? or were they? No one knows. Ludwig may have known that they did not exist, may have delighted only in pulling everyone's leg and in squeezing more money for his whims out of his Minister of "Finance than a sane king could ever have secured. Certain it is that he sometimes commanded lackeys to pick up objects which were not there, and, when they pretended to do so, caned them smartly. As a madman, King Ludwig demanded and obtained, among other whims: 1) lifesize clockwork peacocks made...
...Forum is the last magazine in the world to protest at honest difference with its authors' opinions, but it really must insist that the facts stated shall have some relation to the facts as they exist...
...ignorance of his surroundings. When those who set in judgment decide the fate of one of these members of 1931, the Advisor's report may settle the problem one way or the other. It is because of these cases--comparatively few, actually fairly numerous--that the Student Advisors' exist in that capacity. The inception of Freshman week, one of the achievements of Dean Greenough's administration, has given the Advisor's added reason for being. The undergraduates have an important part in the proceedings during those first few days. Their importance is enhanced, and their responsibility greatly increased...