Word: existance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drastic change in fortune from triumph to defeat. . . . While the strength of his forces was reaching exhaustion, his will remained unbroken, but sometimes it seemed to be only the will not to outlive the fall of Prussia. ... It was this readiness to die . . . that the state might continue to exist which saved his life's work from collapse...
...speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing to urge frustrated Irish students to rebel against "print-suckled hacks who have learned Irish in their youth at the point of a strap, and who have made such a mess of their lives that they can exist only by correcting examination papers." This line is always good for letters...
Said the Manchester Guardian: "It rather looks as if the Indian Government had decided that the best thing to do is to pretend that Gandhi and Congress do not exist and to hope that they will be quietly forgotten...
Through June 30 the boards got refunds of $1,523,748,000 which the U.S. had already paid out on contracts, and negotiated $2,031,426,000 in price reductions for future deliveries on existing contracts -made possible in most cases by industry's improved manufacturing methods, savings by mass production, more accurate cost schedules on once-unfamiliar war material. Actually, the net savings to the Government are far less than these amounts. If the boards did not exist, the Government would still have collected something approaching 80% of the same sums but in the form of excess-profits...
...Daily Worker, Manhattan's mouthpiece for the U. S. Communist Party. Cooed he: ". . . Outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war. Such a misconception continues to exist with regard to Frank Hague and so-called Hagueism...