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Word: existant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...control have undertaken openly to repudiate; Nicaragua, $84,000, which is being paid currently, and Austria, $24,000,000, on which by act of Congress a moratorium of 20 years has been granted. The only remaining sum is $12,000,000, due from Armenia, which has now ceased to exist as an independent nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Message to Congress | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...atmosphere of military training is not the atmosphere for the finest, the most thoughtful work along any line requiring independent thinking. Higher education ought to exist for the encouragement of independent thinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Browning Clashes With Lane Over Purpose and Results of Student Military Training | 12/10/1925 | See Source »

Able listeners at well-plugged official keyholes were unable to think of anything of a world-shattering nature which M. Tchitcherin could have discussed with a French Government that did not exist at the time of his visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: En Route Tchitcherin | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...present time there is no reason to fear that the lecture system will be abolished at Harvard. It has proved too well its right to exist. The conjunction of lectures and tutorial methods confers benefits which can be secured by neither alone and reconciles most of the conflicts which spring from the dual necessities of educating large numbers and of providing at the same time for the needs of the individual student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABOLISH LECTURES? NO! | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...servant William, and a newly arrived chap named Walford set out from the Coast to find the Mungana, accompanied by a Portuguese slave-driver and his flunkies. They arrive at their destination without further ado and find to their delight the diamond fields that had been rumored to exist in the locality. However, complications of a serious nature, arising from the perfidy of the Portuguese, develop when they wish to start back for the coast. In addition the Eternal Triangle is unpleasantly revealed in the thick of the woods, just to make the action bigger and better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMEDY THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER CINEMA | 12/2/1925 | See Source »

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