Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happier creature than the Southern negro of the old type does not exist Carefree, without a thought of the morrow, his is the perfect joy of the eternal child. Yet his inefficiency as a workman defies all comparison. One never hears of a negro committing suicide. "But taint strange, Boss," says Rastus. "When a nigger gits into trouble, and starts thinkin, he just naturally goes to sleep." His childish joy is the product of a mind that does not function...
...delivering this letter, it affords me great pleasure to say to you, Most Excellent Sir, that one of the main objects of the missions with which I am entrusted is to continue and make closer, if it were possible, the good relations which happily exist between the two countries; to which end I believe I may rely, without a doubt, on the most important cooperation of the Government of Your Excellency...
...recognition of a striker as an employee. Under the former interpretation of common law, a man abandoned all claims to that status upon leaving his employment. Under the Clayton Act thus upheld, Justice Sutherland declares that it is not necessary for the old status of employer and employee to exist at the time the alleged contempt was committed. This meaning of the law gives to the worker the lien on his job which the feels when the leaves work with the intention of returning to it under more favorable conditions. It gives legal solidity to the worker's contention that...
...Sodality had some trouble with other clubs, notably the competition with the Arionic Sodality, which came into being in 1813. The two clubs had the same interests, but the matter was settled through diplomacy, and the Arionic Sodality became extinct. Occasionally the records mention other clubs which still exist. In June, 1844, two members cut rehearsals as they preferred to attend a cat-fight in the Phi Beta Kappa rooms...
...anomaly. To the intelligentsia there, "the best of times" had been followed so swiftly by "the worst of times" that incongruities became the normal order. In Paris, too, metropolitan tastes prepare for strange blendings of the new with the old. But anywhere in America his prototype simply did not exist. In New York he might have appeared with least outrage to the imagination. Even in Chicago his tendencies could have been understood as the blind graspings of virlle but untutored genius. But in Boston, of all places, the appearance of this rank innovator is nothing short of cataclysmic...