Word: existance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Perhaps an institutional reform along these lines will take place some day soon; meanwhile the Class of 1943 must do its own reforming. Its members should select their distribution courses with an eye to sampling each of the three areas--for those areas exist, even if they have as yet no formal recognition. And the choice of a field of concentration should also involve care; every possibility, from Art to Zoology, deserves at least to be thought about. If a little sensible consideration is given to these matters by each individual student, a genuine...
...case; she failed a brother in the hour of distress. She failed her historic obligations and failed her own future.' " Even more outspoken was a pamphlet written and published by an Army colonel and a Stockholm professor of history: "Fools are those believing a free Sweden may exist as the neighbor of a Finland trampled down by Bolshevism. No doubt exists that Russia is aiming farther than the suppression of Finland. . . ." A Russia with an Atlantic seacoast, and thus a potential sea power, is something for almost everybody to think about-including Germany...
Sirs: Some time ago I remember seeing in TIME, a reference to the "Society for Prevention of Calling Lavatories John," and to the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters George." If such societies exist in actuality, I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me where I might get in touch with persons who would know more about the societies. ELMER SAMSON Princeton...
...three untainted Radical members of his Cabinet, replaced the three scandal-smeared members with conservative Radicals of Duran's way of thinking, considered that he had found the best way out of his dilemma. Although South America's only Popular Front Government continued to exist, it had veered decidedly to the Right, and the Confederation of Chilean Workers issued a manifesto declaring that in the situation they saw the "thumbprints of Alessandri." The "Lion of Tarapacá" is living quietly in Santiago, at 71 still hale for a comeback, crisis or coup...
...distinctions which I have made are in no way intended to be an index by which the artistic value of a lithograph or an etching can be judged; my only purpose is to show that because of the nature of certain artists' styles, and because of the differences which exist between using color and using only various values of black and white, quite often an artist cannot fully express himself with equal facility in both ways. Matisse can because his manipulation of line happens to be effective, whether it be clothed in color or not; Rivera cannot because his color...