Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overflow from the Mississippi river but floods from five rivers which flow across the State and empty into the Mississippi. For four days the city of Little Rock, of over 100,000 inhabitants, was completely cut off from the outside world except by telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous city of 10,000 people, the water rose to a height of fifteen feet. Those with means were able to retreat to other places but there were many negro...
Professor Graton plans to study ore deposition and behavior of rocks at different depths, in order to be able to calculate the conditions that exist at still deeper depths. In addition to places mentioned above he will visit mines in Spain, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and the Belgian Congo. He is being financially aided in this research work by the Bureau of International Research. At the conclusion of his work he will write several articles for scientific publications...
...minutes of the hour when the Court would rise, and he concluded his impressive argument with these exact words: 'If your honors shall find a way to uphold the validity of this amendment, the Government of the United States as we have known it will have ceased to exist. Your honors will have found a legislative authority hitherto unknown to the Constitution, and untrammeled by any of its limitations...
...quarrel with her husband that evening before he would do the "dirty work." Therefore, she often beat the carpets herself and got her long hair, her eyes and her lungs filled with street filth tracked into her best parlor. Carpet beaters and carpet sweepers are still used where buggies exist...
...Germany carries its burdens not because it feels itself morally obligated thereto, but because as a conquered nation it has undertaken the payments by a treaty. These burdens exist not because Germany began the War [Applause] but because Germany lost the War. [Silence]. ... Germany demands revision of these burdens! [Prolonged applause...