Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disharmony, uncertainty, political plums, and atoms, it is heartening to know that public servants still exist who serve the public...
Closer to America is the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum in Cuba. Established in 1888, the station analyzes tropical plants which exist in a relatives dry climate...
...commission has its way, the U.S. would have 15 million living college graduates by 1970. If the same percentage of graduates aim for the professions as in the past (about 65%), there would have to be, to accommodate them, two or three times as many openings as exist in these prize fields now. Professor Harris, who believes as devoutly in an expanding U.S. economy as his associate, Economist Sumner Slichter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), wonders whether it can expand that much that soon...
Stewart hasn't the glimmer of an idea how men feel when their world is suddenly snuffed out, but he does make some good guesses about how they exist. The dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...
What stopped Curley from being a good governor was his attempt to gain power enough to form a state machine without setting up an efficient organization to do it. He tried to see everyone in the State and pass out jobs to everyone when the jobs just didn't exist; the Brahmins, looking out of their Beacon Hill bay windows were shocked by the long queues of unemployed emanating from the State House doors. That was the kind of thing that worked in City Hall, but couldn't possibly work on such a scale as the State of Massachusetts demanded...