Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition of libraries and dining halls both the Freshman and the Business School Dormitories become more independent as units within the University. They are physically nearer the English colleges as they exist at Oxford and Cambridge and therefore in harmony with the suggestions, laid down in the Student Council Report of last Spring which expected the development of relatively small self-sufficient communities to provide better anchorage for individual members than the high seas of the University as a whole...
...night before Christmas nor even Ignatz Mouse* himself, have histories to compare with the lemmings', who date back to Norse mythology and further; back to Miocene days when lemmings periodically migrated from the Scandinavian peninsula to another continent, perhaps lost Atlantis, by land routes which no longer exist. The lemmings have not yet learned that their oldtime highways are gone. At uncertain intervals (sometimes after five years, sometimes after 20) they mass on an edge of the Scandinavian plateau† and start a beeline migration. They move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march...
...subjects with which the Conference is most likely to concern itself," added Professor Young, "are tariffs and industrial combinations. Different as these two subjects are in most respects they have certain elements in common. The present obstacles to industrial progress in Europe are such as might exist in the United States if every state in the United States had its own protective tariff and if industrial companies found it difficult to operate with more than some one state. Efficient industrial organization calls for larger markets than the petty national economic units into which Europe is split up can now provide...
...There exist, however, chiefly in museums, a few examples of the metallic milreis, doubtless referred to by Original Subscriber Nutt...
...thought he was preparing in secret an army of revenge; while the Socialists have credited him with building up a force to bulwark the Republic against Nationalist attempts to restore the Monarchy. Since Herr Gessler's activities have been carried on in secret these two antithetical impressions could exist. The facts about Germany's "secret army" have, however, been rather thoroughly aired at a series of military trials. War Minister Gessler has been shown to have no great secret resources at his disposal; but to have used what he had for reactionary ends. This antagonized the Socialists...