Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling that your writer is talking about someone else part of the time . . . The fellow you describe sounds a bit more like a character out of Mickey Spillane's "masterpieces." Somewhere beneath the literary imagination of your writer and above the "brogues gleaming richly on the broadloom" must exist a very competent individual composed of an uncommon amount of just plain Bill...
There used to be a Rebellion Tree in the Yard. No longer does anyone know where it stood or when it was uprooted. Yet that it did exist is quite certain from the numerous references to it in old documents. And that it was the very symbol of the former rebellious spirit of the Harvard undergraduate--now apparently gone forever--is also quite certain...
...undesirable outside pressure on internal political affairs, the meeting adjourned agreeing that aid should be channeled instead through regional funds like the Colombo Plan, and through the United Nations itself. While the vagueness of the Asian nations' fears may obscure their legitimate complaints, the fact that the fears exist should lead the U.S. to increase its own allotment to regional and international funds...
Hansen discussing his role in economics, called Wilson a true Jeffersonian Democrat, who adjusted Jeffersonian practices to Jeffersonian ideals in a changed society. He saw that a democracy could not exist in the sphere of uncontrolled capitalism, and swung the Democratic Party away from States Rights in a successful effort to save the system, Hansen added...
Theoretically, said Roboff, nuclear power plants will "outperform all existing types of power-generating plants." Such plants are not now being built, he told an audience of engineers in Manhattan, because "we do not yet have materials of construction that can withstand the severity of conditions which would exist within a power reactor operating with ultrahigh power output." Some of the major kinks that must be ironed out, according to Roboff, before commercial nuclear power becomes "really attractive and generally available...