Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain?" shrewd Amir Amanullah replied: "I will answer that question after I have spoken to Sir Austen Chamberlain" (British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). Attached to the royal Afghan suite, last week, were several businesslike, efficient secretaries who carried data upon the many, varied and picturesque opportunities which exist in Afghanistan for the profitable investment of occidental capital...
...peddlers announce their calling into the introduction and first scene of the second act. The role of "Louise" is conspicuously suited to the histrionic and musical abilities of Miss Garden, and the opera as a whole presents a graphic picture of a Bohemian Paris which has almost ceased to exist...
...bureaucratic, stereotyped agenda. An ardent "Second Schooler'' is President Isidore Ayora of Ecuador. His words: "It is necessary to step from verbal and declamatory Pan-Americanism to ... . concrete Pan-Americanism ... to the effective and total recognition of identical rights for all American states . . . repelling the possibility that there may exist or could exist, governments or peoples that domineer...
...moral codes for male and female: "We shall see worse things before better. ... In the end we shall evolve a stable and permanent relation between men and women for the creation of children. ..." Of cigarets, Miss Royden ambiguously remarked that if a woman found that she could not exist without them she had better cut them...
...Widener. What we can do is to see that the ventilating system, installed at great cost when the building was erected, but never used for lack of funds, is put into operation at once. Connections can easily be made with the Reading Room, if indeed they do not already, exist. Thus we can be assured of a regular supply of fresh air without draught, and consequently of a reading room which will increase rather than destroy the mental alacrity of its users. Those who desire to sleep will have in future to seek the cinema, which is much more admirably...