Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that ministers tell their congregations all about the most picturesque side of Home Missions work (such as loving the Indian and victualing the innumerable children of immigrants) ; but that a great portion of money so raised is used to assist small denominational churches which are absolutely unnecessary and which exist only to compete with the church across the village street. The money, says he, is raised under false pretenses...
...first necessary to know what people mean by liberty, and to differentiate sharply between liberty and license." He then read several extracts from Opposition newspapers, in which the Government had been criticized, to prove that anyone could say whatever he liked and that, therefore, personal liberty did exist...
Replied Benito, his eyes rolling with fury: "This is a point which I want you to understand. I have never asked myself that question be cause a universal conception of democracy does not exist. There exist and have existed, States which glorify themselves with the title democratic, but every one of them ? Athens, Venice, Britain, the United States ? have, in their history, novelties so absolutely distinct that nothing has ever seemed to me so grotesque as an attempt to reduce them to a common measure...
...book that does not exist...
...effort to suggest the vortex of sensations in the hero's mind, sustained as this effort is from beginning to end, cannot help straining at points. Highly effective in such scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally...