Word: existance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsibility and must be our destiny to prove to ourselves and to a suffering and disillusioned world that democracy can exist, can grow, and can flourish in this modern age. This is not a responsibility that can be shouldered merely by the adoption of many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...
...fought are not acquainted with the conditions of democratic government. To bring a nation such as England into war there must be a cause for which the people are enthusiastic--so enthusiastic that they will sustain horror, mounting casualty, and appalling misery without complaining. Such a cause does not exist in England or France...
...Every man has his ghost" is a slight over statement, but it still suggests a condition that exists in most colleges today and harasses the instructors who are correcting prepared essays. Ghost writing of all degrees, varying from outside assistance merely in organizing a paper all the way to the composition of a finished product with notes and all, done independently of the student, still prevails to a certain extend at Harvard, despite all efforts to blot it out. As long as it continues to exist, neither the long theses nor the short essays prepared outside of class will achieve...
Shoulders were promptly shrugged in Paris at the French Foreign Office. Its official spokesman said off the record that no such traffic exists. That it does exist no serious correspondent or commentator on the Far East has questioned for many months...
...interview yesterday he substituted "honesty and service to the public" for the team "reactionary" which his opponent, James M. Curley, has thrown at him. True liberalism cannot exist without this quality, he said...