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Word: existance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give the name of the paper as the Public Ledger. It is the Evening Public Ledger. The Public Ledger, a morning newspaper, ceased to exist as a separate publishing entity some years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...trying to recreate, namely African Negro style. Whether the similarity between the aesthetic end of the African tribes and that of the early Americans can be traced to any specific instances of direct influence remains a point for further discussion. Evidence points to the contrary. The stylistic similarities which exist between early African and early American art can be easily detected in early Chinese art as well; but these are cultural anomalies, considering the distance separating the three continents...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Council's proposals are designed to remedy the over-concentration and inadequate distribution which the Council finds at present exist; they may be viewed as proposals to reinstate distribution in Harvard education. To replace the present distribution requirement, the Council would substitute five required introductory courses expressly constructed to give a broad education. Of these, two would be courses in the humanities, two in the natural sciences, and one in the social sciences. The two in the humanities would really compose one two-year course in intellectual and cultural history. Of the two in natural sciences, one would be concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Report on Education | 1/16/1940 | See Source »

...Council realizes that informality is one of the chief virtues of the tutorial relationship. This informality the Council's proposals do not destroy; they merely require that the tutorial relationship exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Report on Education | 1/16/1940 | See Source »

Reasons: 1) The Cabinet's offer to open the Yangtze to U. S. trade had got no warmer comment in the U. S. than: "It's about time"; 2) It looked more & more as though a "non-treaty situation" would exist after Jan. 26, when the abrogated Treaty of 1911 lapses; 3) Although the Army in China was having episodic successes in Lanchow and the Southwest, war still dragged on; 4) At home Japan had a severe shortage of rice and fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Large Order | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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