Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When at last Colette abandoned Willy, she went on the stage. Faded photographs, says Wescott, still exist of Colette as a vaudeville queen-"a black cat in woolly tights with inked-on whiskers," a seductive charmer making a grand entry "with what appears to be a real peacock tail." Colette left the stage to marry a distinguished politician and journalist, Henri de Jouvenel. They were divorced, and in 1935 she married her present husband, a journalist named Maurice Goudeket. But she never stopped writing. By 1919, Marcel Proust himself was shedding tears over her love story of World...
Parking and parietals are two problems recurring constantly at Cambridge that just don't exist in Tigertown. Their first solution is simple: the Undergraduate Regulations of Princeton's Official Register, General Regulations, section 12, states, "No undergraduate shall, while college is in session, maintain or operate a motor vehicle in Princeton or in the neighborhood thereof . . . without the consent of the Dean of his College...
Nevada tests of Atom Bomb Number Five have been another step in the rearmament of free nations to curb Soviet aggression wherever it may exist. The Truman Doctrine for the defense of Greece and Turkey, military aid to Franco and Tito, and the establishment of NATO armed forces under General Eisenhower have been earlier steps in this policy of containment...
...Physics and psychology, for instance, were once miles apart, one dealing with a mechanistic universe made up of measurable and observable particles, the other with fleeting and intangible emotion. But in the world of quanta, the physicists have begun to believe that forces can be transmitted where no particles exist -on waves as fleeting, intangible and unpredictable as emotion itself. In the eyes of both physicists and psychologists, therefore, man and the universe are beginning to present a common problem: the study of forces that cannot be visualized and that follow no rigid rules of cause & effect. Out of such...
...signed out 36 outside books a year during his four years at Kenyon College (1838-42). ¶Said Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College: "I don't blame youth for its present moral confusion as much as I do its elders and educators. There does exist a moral idealism and intellectualism in youth which is waiting to be brought out, but the colleges are not doing...