Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Brazilian law, if a couple, one of whom is dying, wish to marry, they can declare that intention before six witnesses. A court then decides whether to make the marriage legal. Divorce does not exist in Brazil, and both Carol and Magda have been divorced; however, Brazilian courts sometimes recognize the divorces of foreigners. A knottier gimmick in the Carol-Magda nuptials is a Brazilian legal provision that the deathbed wedding procedure is invalidated if the ill spouse recovers...
...life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining of the breathing apparatus (nose, throat, lungs...
...depth of great art does not exist for one moment in the work of Shostakovich, only the spirit, the colored robe and the sparkling flexibility of virtuosity." - Max Graf, Modern Music...
Concluded Chief Draftsman Taft: "The Committees of Congress . . . have tried to restore equality in collective bargaining and correct only those abuses . . . which were clearly shown to exist...
...alone. Faridkot, together with the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharaja of Travancore, had declared he wished to retain his princely independence. But Gandhi threw his enormous prestige behind the Congress solution: end princely privilege. "Rulers," he told his visitor, "have only the right to exist if they become the trustees and servants of the people. If the princes do not change, they must cease...