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Word: existance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legitimate children of American Defense, Harvard Group exist most prominently at Dartmouth and Tufts in the East; Claremont, which includes several lesser institutions, on the Pacific coast; and at Duke in the South. At all these places the feeling among the faculty is in general support of the beliefs favored by our committee and there is considerable momentum in the movements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY DEFENSE GROUP IS STYMIED IN ORGANIZING ITS WESTERN AFFILIATES | 10/22/1940 | See Source »

...raiders. The naval rule of thumb for a safe operating radius for a fleet is 2,500 miles from its base. The only fleet operating base of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Only sketchy facilities for planes and light craft exist at other U. S.-owned islands. At Manila there are no adequate facilities for overhaul of cruisers and battleships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Naval Problem of the Orient | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...strengthen and unite youth in a common consciousness, as the C.C.C. and N.Y.A. legislation has done? Or would conscription deaden youth's capacity to criticize, to hope, and to construct? In the answer to that question lies our contribution to "that unknown future where free men must and shall exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE OCCASION OF MUSTER | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

Inevitably through this treatment, Clark tends to overemphasize the psychological battles within the minds of each individual in the lynching mob. He seems to endow the characters with a hesitance, a doubtfulness about the righteousness of their course which would not exist in reality. The lyncher when in white heat blazes with his hate, he does not consider in rational terms. Clark's lynchers tend to think too much...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

...even with the most powerful microscope, has ever seen an atom. But modern astronomy, by splitting starlight in spectroscopes where atoms leave their signatures in parallel lines, has identified chemical elements in stars trillions and quadrillions of miles away. There is no reason to suppose that life cannot exist in worlds beyond earth for lack of suitable materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Beyond Earth? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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