Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncultivated area always gives the non-landowner the opportunity to become a squatter, and thus some day to own his won property. As a result of this condition, there are practically no poor in the agricultural districts of the islands. "We, indeed, have our rich, but they do not exist to the extent that they create the poor...
...coal and iron mines are a second national resource which should attract American capital. Large deposits of the metals are known to exist, but, comparatively, they are un exploited. The Filipinos have been primarily an agricultural people and have been uninterested in the existence of these mineral deposits. Not until the acquisition of the islands by the United States in 1898, has our people realized the extent of these natural resources...
Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spoke on prohibition in Boston, saying: "The 'upper crust' which 'feels itself above and superior to the law, and the 'dregs' who strike beneath the foundations of American liberties? these two classes exist everywhere, especially in Boston, where the oldest families . . . violate...
...novel of Anatole France the monk continues to exist, shameless and bitter; in the opera he is forgotten...
...Arthur I. Kendall's "Civilization and the Microbe," the much abused microbe will find a worthy sponsor and genuine admirer. Some of the facts which the Dean of Northwestern University of Medicine points out in the fascinating realm of bacteriology are "that without microbes life could not exist on this earth, that one microbe can theoretically increase within twenty-four hours to 78,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, that it takes fifteen millions of millions average microbes to weigh an ounce...