Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed astronomers. The "main sequence" stars have, identically the same-composition as the sun: for every atom of any metal there are some six atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms; its densest matter has the same basic composition as its most dilute matter...
Slacks. The I.C.I.E. survey did not try to measure the effectiveness of such house organs. But on that score, one critic last fortnight had some harsh words. Said Dr. Vergil D. Reed, a J. Walter Thompson Co. research executive: many business magazines are poorly edited, misguided publications that exist only because it's fashionable for industry to have them...
...Many nations hitherto friendly to the U.S. would jump for a neutral corner between U.S. and Russia. 4. The Russian veto would still exist in the guise of Russian armed force...
...error. As to other religions, the church will certainly never draw the sword, but she will require that by legitimate means they shall not be allowed to propagate false doctrine. Consequently, in a state where the majority of the people are Catholic, the church will require that legal existence be denied to error, and that if religious minorities actually exist, they shall have only a de facto existence without opportunity to spread their beliefs. If, however, actual circumstances . . . make the complete application of this principle impossible, then the church will require for herself all possible concessions...
Diego Rivera's new mural in a Mexico City hotel had stirred up a tequila tempest: the Archbishop refused to bless the hotel because the mural in the dining room contained the words "God does not exist" (TIME, June 14). Last week the ideological brew boiled over, and some of it spilled on the painting...