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Word: existant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when sacrificial blood is flowing freely and uncomplainingly in so many other quarters and when shipping is important enough to decide a nation's fate, it is sickening indeed to realize the treacherous apathy that is allowed to exist among a class of workmen who, by the very token of their skill, have so much to offer, positively and directly, to the cause of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

American Culture, from the first, was profoundly social and practical. The Founding Fathers agreed to a man that the arts must be closely relevant to daily living if they were to exist at all. Hence the fine arts would probably have to wait a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early Stages | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...people's war. Before we are victorious and can return to the ways of peace, each of us will have to shelve his earlier plans of life. This has been pounded home repeatedly, with the realistic reminder that such a state of concentrated effort does not yet exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Us the Blueprints V | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Although some observers believe that resultant potential purchasing power after the war would present danger of inflation, Hansen believes that due to the enormous productive capacity of modern society, no such inflationary danger would exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADOPT PUBLIC SAVINGS PLAN, HANSEN SAYS | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...wiped out altogether. As long as beautiful Georgian architecture casts its stately shadow on the slums of De Wolfe Street; as long as tweed coats and white-wall tires give life and breath to the spirit of "Gold Coast"; as long as University property is untaxed, the problem will exist. But it need not manifest itself in the form of group attack on unsuspecting students under the cover of dimmed street lights. It need not exist at the expense of teeth and jaw bones and eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruise in the Night | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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