Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve years in her job, Madam Secretary was tired. Presumably, she had sent in her resignation many weeks ago; it had been gathering dust on Franklin Roosevelt's desk. For her successor the President was looking for somebody who probably does not exist: a man who will meet the specifications of both A.F. of L. and C.I.O., and get by Congress to boot...
...conferred with the EAM guerrilla leader, leftist General Stephanos Saraphis, and the EDES' leader, rightist General Napoleon Zervas. Zervas agreed to disarm his followers. Saraphis would not. General Scobie warned all Greeks: "I am convinced that in many parts of this country freedom of the people does not exist. ... [I am prepared to] stand by the side of the present constitutional Government until it has a national army under its banners, and is able to hold free elections." He gave EAM the choice: obey or be suppressed. General Scobie proposed to fight unrest with food. For in Greece...
...Democracy in The Harvard Community," which is scheduled to begin at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. "Democracy begins at home," he points out, in calling for liberalism in the college as well as in America. "Race prejudice, lack of tolerance--all these can exist in a college community...
Thousands of other U.S. war memorials, better and worse than Kansas City's, have drawn like comments, from plain men and professional critics. Nevertheless, they exist. The U.S., in fact, began World War II with a rigid militia of statuary almost as big as the standing army. Now, with the U.S. entering its fourth war year and some World War II memorials already abuilding, something of a revolt against traditional war memorials has sprung up. The U.S. people have apparently decided that they want no concrete jeeps, or LSTs in marble. By last week city after city had begun...
...greater degree of attention, said President Conant, must be paid to the individual student and his personal abilities. An effort should be made to uncover and develop any special talents that may exist. Programs designed to stimulate a student's intellectual curiosity should be given an important place in secondary education...