Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the final notes of the season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra technically ceased to exist. The musicians would not renew their contracts because the trustees refused a wage increase. They demanded $67.50 per week instead of $60. In 1916, they received...
...customary regulations that exist during examinations will be enforced. No student will be permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination on any subject whatever. A student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or officer in general charge of the examinations...
...lecture on Tuesday evening, he stressed the need of a brotherhood of man which, he said, if it should exist would cure the world of all its troubles...
...That the fundamental postulates of Einstein that ether does not exist and that gravity is not a force, but a property of space, are crazy vagaries, disgraceful in a scientific age, and repudiated by the Paris Academy of Sciences and by reputable German scholars...
...true that the best way to solve difficulties created by the animosities of groups and classes is to let them alone. But it cannot be true that the best way to think about them is to pretend that they don't exist...