Word: exist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't exist without Sagen-dorph and his staff, "may forecast that a particular day will be 'warm.' He never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen...
This year, however, the situation of the pupil attempting to win from his teacher does not exist. As a matter of fact, Dick Harlow, has been scouting for Brown, but has not included Harvard on his Saturday peeking assignments...
...offer a wide enough selection of extra-curricular goings-on to stimulate many members. And, most important, the Houses have never succeeded in what was to be a major function, that of serving as centers of education for large numbers of students. Forums and "concentration dinners" do exist, but the House have failed to become places where a man can improvise on his lecture hall learning, play with ideas, grow mentally...
...learned person around this table, so I have thought of this article in terms of what the ordinary person would understand." In a two-hour wrangle with Indian and Russian delegates, she insisted that such words as "caste" and "class" were "outgrown." "We admit caste and class distinctions do exist, but we don't try to emphasize them," she declared firmly...
...disillusionment with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...