Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading of your article . . . brought with it the stark realization that there exist within our society the same sadistic elements which prompted the brutality of Nazi concentration camps and Japanese prisons...
...belong to no school, hard-boiled or otherwise, and I believe these so-called schools exist mainly in the imagination of critics. . . . [Writing] is a genital process . . . intra-abdominal. ... I have read less than twenty pages of Mr. Dashiell Hammett in my whole life. ... I owe no debt ... to Mr. Ernest Hemingway . . . Matterhorn of literature...
What is promised from this new science is still nebulous though the inherent possibilities have excited the imaginations of scientists throughout the world. Weather prediction, for which tremendous complex formulae already exist, may be reduced to an exact process instead of the present hit and miss system; economists and anthropologists have reams of statistical data which may with mechanical aid be put to practical use; engineers, particularly aeronautical and metallurgical, may be able to come out of the laborious testing laboratory and try their designs quickly and inexpensively through machine aided mathematics. Automatic computation cuts horizontally across all fields...
This week the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune had its second birthday. A little over two years ago, when Geoffrey Parsons Jr. arrived in Paris to edit it, the paper had ceased to exist. The fabled Old Paris Herald, eccentric foster child of the New York Herald Tribune, had died when Paris fell four years before. Parsons didn't even try to restore its old ways. His orders were to make it better. Last week the European Herald Tribune looked even more like its clean-columned New York parent than young Geoff Parsons looks like...
With Professor Miller on leave of absence for the spring term, Professor Matthiessen teaching only the basic course in the American field, and Professor Levin engaged in General Education, the concentrator finds that, as far as his needs are concerned, the renowned English Department does not exist. Although the absence of three of the most vital men in the field may be justified, the multiple course conflicts are inexcusable...