Word: existance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uniat churches, often called "Greek Catholic," are churches of the Near East recognizing the papacy and all Roman Catholic dogma. They are not to be confused with the Orthodox churches of the Near East which, likewise, are often lumped together as "Greek." Uniat churches exist because of a Catholic policy similar to the old trust builder's maxim: If you can't lick them, join them. The Roman Church absorbed numerous Orthodox faithful by allowing them to keep their customs, the discipline of their clergy, and their rites. To U. S. Catholics, Uniat Catholics of the Greek Rite...
Boxers, Lamar will say, are the kind of athletes who need competition, and not the kind that comes from week after week of sparring with the same partners. There must be a little more incentive to win. Boxing for the joy of boxing may exist, but the majority of fist-flingers want to see more than a bruised sparring partner (whom they've fought a dozen times before) after they get through a few three-minute sessions...
...have been waiting a long time for a logical explanation of Surrealism's right to exist; not its existence, mind, but its right to exist. Any kid can sling a ripe tomato, three rotten eggs and a jackknife at a square of wallboard and get a bang-up Surrealistic effect. But is that...
...Yorkshire Post, owned by Mrs. Eden's family, did its best to sabotage Lord Halifax's visit. It was rebuked by the London Daily Telegraph (which is close to Mr. Chamberlain) for printing rumors that "There exist and are known to Germany to exist in this country [Britain] a "certain number of people-not all of them obscure [Halifax & friends]- who would be prepared to welcome a German campaign of territorial expansion in the East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions...
...students in the social sciences and at a considerable cost to the University, books are partly destroyed every year by boys who hold to the tradition of marking them up. The librarians have been resigned to the situation which, in spite of all efforts, they feel, would continue to exist as long as Harvard had libraries. Without attempting active opposition to the evil, the authorities have given up hope of a better...