Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago, President Hopkins of Dartmouth College received, by request, a report on "the liberal college," why it should exist, how it ought to work- from a dozen members of his Senior class. The students had gathered their information, resolved their theories, on visits to numerous U. S. institutions of higher learning (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924). Then, in May, President Hopkins received and had published A Study of the Liberal College by Prof. Richardson of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, whom he had commissioned to visit colleges abroad, especially in England (TIME...
...fabulous continent described by Plato and early historians as lying outside the Pillars of Herculles (Gibralter) extending far westward, well populated and highly civilized as late as 9558 B.C. From the appearance of lava dredged by cable-layers, some scientists hold that Atlantis did exist (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), that it was split in two volcanically. the eastern half submerging, peaks of the western half (Antilia) remaining today as the Antilles (West Indies). Alleged cranial similarities between natives of Venezuela and Canary Islanders, also between fossil flors and fauna of France and the U.S., constitute other "evidence...
...German studied all the books and documents written on the elephant, then wrote a work in three volumes, entitled An Introduction to the Study of the Elephant. The Russian retired to his garret, drank quantities of vodka, numerous samovars of tea, produced a small volume : The Elephant-Docs He Exist? The Pole immediately set to work and in six weeks finished a pamphlet called The Elephant and the Polish Question...
Senator Count Cippico, speaking a la Fascismo, declared that war was a "cruel necessity." "Each nation," said he, "has to defend its own right to exist, to remedy the defects of its geographical, political or economic situation in the world, to make good its own individual civilization as opposed to the inferior civilizations of other peoples...
...49th degree of latitude is a line that exists only in the imagination, and it looks as though it were going to cease to exist even there. The borderline exists by virtue of a treaty that is respected by both sides, but when your mines are ruled, your water powers exploited, your timber limits seized upon- all for the benefit of the alien living on the other side; and when, after taking all your natural resources, shipping them to the United States and selling them back to us as manufactured products, the hearts and souls of your children are turned...