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Word: existent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of the Czech newspaper Svobodne Slovo, now aptly retitled Nova Politika, does not mean "Free World" [TIME, March 8], but "Free Word." It is because the "Free Word" has ceased to exist in my country, not only as a newspaper but mainly as a means of expression, that I have resigned my position of Czechoslovak consul in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...have no fear." He said that he had asked Thomas for a hearing last summer on the charges but had had no reply. Promptly the Commerce Department announced that only six days before the Thomas report was issued the departmental loyalty board had held, unanimously, that "no reasonable grounds exist for believing Dr. Condon is disloyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: How to Win Appropriations | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...that the discovery has nothing directly to do with the release of atomic energy. "It wouldn't be in the papers if it had." Not now, perhaps. But mesons are intimately concerned with the way that matter turns into energy and vice versa. They are not believed to exist already formed in a normal nucleus, but are created somehow when an energetic particle smashes into the unknown but enormously powerful field of force that holds the nucleus together. Study of mesons may tell what this force is. The next step (in the usual sequence of things) may be control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Meson Mystery | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...dilemma is whether to keep the venal friendship of the Arabs, which they cannot afford to forsake, or whether to uphold the honor and decency of the U.S. and the hard-pressed authority of the United Nations. The dilemma, thus, does not exist; it lacks horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Many women, as well as men, are physically clean," mused Columnist Elsa Maxwell rather abruptly, "and although they may bathe twice a day they somehow fail to look any cleaner than if they hadn't bathed. Now why does this particularity exist in the human race?" She didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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