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Word: existance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismal remarks, but only a germ and an anaemic one at that, for it is too obvious that the writer knows almost nothing about contemporary college life, at least in any Eastern university. His little utopia, by college spirit out of Bryn Mawr, overlooks the fundamental fallacy of its existence, which is that college spirit is too worn out and decrepit to beget more than a weakling doomed to an early death--even with the assistance of Bryn Mawr. It does exist at a football game, and in a certain sentimental aura that clings round the memory of alma matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER SUCH PLEASURES | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

...police beat up and jail hundreds of Chinese students when they demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which is the political party of the Generalissimo himself, the only party he permits to exist in China. Anti-Japanese passages have been expunged by Chinese historians from many Chinese schoolbooks on orders from Japan, and hard to find even a few weeks ago was an eminent Chinese bold enough to say with Peiping's great Historian-Philosopher Dr. Hu Shih: "It would be better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...opinion there is great need for, and there does not exist, a well-written, factual, entertaining and impartial contemporary history -a history which takes up one year after another in volume after volume-each beginning with Jan. 1 and ending with Dec. 31, each written from the fresh viewpoint of the given year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...further made clear last week, as the mists of minor issues rolled away, that Alf Landon was playing his opponent's game. The New Deal had not helped but hindered the return of Prosperity, drummed the Republican Nominee; real Prosperity could not be said to exist while 11,000,000 citizens remained unemployed; Republican rule would bring greater Prosperity; New Deal spending threatened the foundations of future Prosperity. Meantime, as the Democratic Nominee coursed eastward from Colorado, drawing great crowds everywhere and everywhere demonstrating his mastery of them (see p. 12), he hammered again & again at a single thesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prosperity Rampant | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Harvard has been justly proud of her pioneering record in general planning. It was only natural, then, to hear protests from graduates and others when it was announced last February that the School of Regional Planning was to cease to exist as a separate entity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LIVELY CORPSE | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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