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Word: existance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commuters are, at least for a while, a fact of life. As long as the University feels it worthwhile to admit local students for whom there are no House facilities, or who cannot afford residence a commuting problem will exist. While not an ideal solution, cooperative houses do offer a chance for students to avoid the inconvenience of daily MTA travel and the distractions of living at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuter Coop | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

Similar sentiments were expressed by Abraham Lowenthal '61, who claimed that the members of Lowell House felt that "someone is inventing an issue" that does not exist...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Decides Against Studying Typing of Exams | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...pray that God will give the Holy Father the strength to break through the opposition of the Curia. One must not forget that these cardinals in their ivory Vatican tower have never seen Protestants, and feel no need for contacts with something that to them does not exist. The Pope is a man of great experience. Let us hope he can make the weight of his enlightened judgment felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reply to the Pope | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Barth began by spraying a plague on "the forces and powers" of both East and West, but the plague on the West soon took precedence. "If there is such a thing as hostility toward Christ," Barth said, "it does not exist in the Communist East alone." The "evil spirit" manifests itself in the East as "open totalitarianism, backed by an all-powerful political party." whereas in the West it takes the form of "creeping totalitarianism, backed by powerful institutions, such as press, private enterprise, public opinion and arrogant wealth." Moreover, the Communist regime of East Germany may be regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bit for Barth's Bite | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Kwimpers drive to their destiny on that modern Rosinante, the jalopy with deciduous hubcaps. They migrate to Florida and defeat it, by the simple expedient of driving to the middle of a highway that has not been officially opened and therefore does not officially exist. As successful squatters, living on fish and cunning, the Kwimpers hold off waves of governmental agents, sociologists and gangsters intent on civilizing them. Writers have loved such types, from Shakespeare's Nym, Pistol and Bardolph, who defied Elizabethan order, to Hasek's Good Soldier Schweik, whose peasant idiocy proved smarter than the Austro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dog's Best Friend | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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