Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordered sacrifices to be offered before the image. Twenty years later the Emperor was dead, and in a few years more the statue itself was a fable. Few men alive in the sixth century had ever seen it, fewer still could tell what had become of it. Copies exist, worn faces on coins, busts that show the softening touch of weaker epochs. Last week a new copy, perhaps the greatest of all, was discovered in Cyrene by Professor Giacomo Guildi...
...those mentally alert, however there still exist deadly bits of dagger play in domestic politics. By careful reading of the reports, one may reconstruct the Borgian episodes in which votes are used as weapons. The Pennsylvania primary, and the Wadsworth manifesto in New York are examples of the secret power of wet sentiment. For many a candidate, the prohibition issue will be as deadly a potion as ever was wine poisoned by intriguing princes. Thus, a sophisticated danger yet lurks in ballot box politics...
...training. This purely collegiate living, in the midst of university environment has been the cause of much shaking of heads by educational leaders whose eyes are fixed upon European models. They ignore the fact that without these undergraduate bodies the moral and financial strength of the university would not exist, and even the tremendous pressure that great educational foundations can bring to bear will never uproot this truly American feature...
...general the CRIMSON is not partial to athletic rallies. When they are an artificial means of producing what is known as college spirit, a spirit which according to the advocates of rallies would not exist as it should, except for the rallies, there is no logical place for them in university life. If college spirit can be made to exist only through such means, no attempt should be made to foster it. Affection for and loyalty to one's university, be it in scholarship or athletics, which does not come naturally cannot be aggravated in any healthy way by rallies...
...more than Mr. Babbitt represents the worst but both show that much improvement is necessary before this country can in any large numbers produce a thinking being with a sense of humor. Mr. Babbitt cannot laugh at himself. The Mercury is no better. And whereas one is content to exist on the profits from tires and real estate, the other lives in that brand of human fish which bites any bait with a pseudo-intellectual flavor...