Word: existed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced the statistics on the allotment of tickets for the Harvard-Princeton game tomorrow in an effort to clear up any misunderstanding that may exist as to the system used, and in order to show clearly why the most desirable seats could not be given to all who expected them. There have been many queries from graduates, who applied for two tickets wishing to know why they did not receive seats between the goal lines and not in the colonnade...
...third of these shortages was one of automobiles and trucks. Since most of us would not have agreed last year that any shortage existed, it seems strange to call it one. Nevertheless the amazing activity of the motor industry during 1922 shows that there did exist a real and great shortage of cars, for clearly there were some millions of people in this country this year who wanted new automobiles and who had the money with which to satisfy their desires...
...normal has frequently been drawn from the fact that prices have reverted to their former level after previous periods of currency inflation in the early and middle nineteenth century. The Harvard Committee, however, cannot accept this conclusion, for it cannot find that the governing conditions exist today which brought about lower price levels in the past...
...Revere Beach, a Luna Park, a Coney Island, all rolled in one and open the year 'round at that, exist unnoticed in the massive shadow of Langdell Hall. Condensed into one room is the first amusement park in America...
Professor Richard Burton is quite right in the stand he takes against "the half-baked sophistication, juvenile cynicism, indifference," among Eastern students, as the Times puts it, if these things exist in the degree that he thinks they do and they seem to, not only among some undergraduates but among men long out of college who are so devilishly clever that they make on turn with relief to Sanford and Merton. The trouble with these superior, people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings...