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Word: existant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guard Marshall Plan food stocks from rat attack. Under the Kendall Plan, only "healthy and vigorous work cats" would be inducted; all would become "government wards." Cried Sydney H. Coleman, executive vice-president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: "The cats could not exist on rodents. . . . They would need supplementary feeding which people in these countries could not give. . . . We are vigorously opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Stooges | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...nebula-dotted universe is finite, what lies beyond it? Robertson does not know. Perhaps, he admits, there may exist, far off in some medium that is thinner than space, still other universes. But each, presumably, is sealed in its own bubble of space, the light from its stars circulating endlessly, never escaping to reach our astronomers' telescopes. Scientists, briskly dusting their hands of other universes, say that if they exist, they must be penetrated by "nonphysical means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...tremendous demand" which still exists everywhere indicates that no serious downward spiral can begin at this time, Harris pointed out. "This demand will continue to exist, since we are still living in a semi-war economy," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Savants See No Crash In Stocks Dip | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

With the one exception of the last number of the Advocate, the standard of the fiction in the two magazines is far below that of much of the material written for the College's advanced composition courses. The magazines, which exist as an outlet for student writing, are crying for the good material that is left to languish on a shelf or on the desk of some New Yorker secretary. Student readers and editors both suffer; while every literary hopeful is losing a unique chance to publish and be read, even if only by a small following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

...case to the last and highest court of all-the House of Lords. The Lords, represented by five peers of the realm, turned Mr. Baxter down. Parliament, they said, understood the word "consummate" as it was "understood in common parlance and in the light of social conditions known to exist," which, the Lord Chancellor added, included the establishment of birth control clinics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Purpose of Marriage | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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