Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price of matches was increased from 25 pfennigs for ten boxes to 30 pfennigs, giving the independents larger profits, the government larger revenue from taxes. To Kreuger & Toll the terms mean a continuation of its German profits. To Matchmaker Kreuger they mean another triumph in the diplomatic relations that exist between Swedish Match and the rest of the world. Although Herr Kreuger has been Great Matchman for the past dozen years, it was only last year that alert U. S. investors first became familiar with him (TIME, Oct. i, 1928). Then it was that Manhattan's Lee, Higginson...
...Armstrong has long planned to anchor his first full-size seadrome midway between Manhattan and Bermuda. Studying hydrographic charts of the region he figured that there must exist a high spot on the ocean floor about where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas...
...enormously good thing merely to exist. You must take whatever comes your way and make the best use of it possible...
...discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions of men and 50,000 guns to put against a nation with 166,000 men and no guns? So long as these instruments of war exist there can be no real peace...
...over the country, notably at Yale and Johns Hopkins, are carrying on allied investigations. The Institute of Criminal Law inaugurated at Harvard earlier in the year is also working along the same general lines towards a reform in the criminal code. To these analyses of conditions as they exist in the United States, the Institute of Comparative Law, by extending the scope of investigations to other countries, will be able to add a broadened perspective and objective viewpoint that will prove to be of immense value...