Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shed. For food comes off Gus Kuester's farm on four trotters and squealing like a buzz saw. Poland China and Spotted Poland China hogs are the crop to which his whole farm economy is geared. The acres of corn, the acres of oats, the acres of hay exist chiefly to cram the maws of pigs and finish about 200 hogs a year as efficiently (that is, as quickly and cheaply) as possible to meet the exigencies of marketing...
...beams of sound waves too short for reception by the human ear. But in subtropical waters a kind of shrimp interfered: the snapping of their claws made these same "ultrasonic" sounds. Enemy submarines, the Navy feared, might hide behind this interference. As it turned out, "ultrasonic" shrimp did not exist where German U-boats most commonly cruised; but the)' did live in the waters off Japan, and U.S. submarines hid from listening Japanese behind the noise of the shrimps's snapping claws...
...evidences of continued decline exist and are of great concern to those who feel the absence of the traditional Harvard leadership. Perhaps the faculty has been enervated by the war. Whatever the reason, Harvard has lost pre-eminence in many of the departments of the Humanities. The very base of the individuality of the University, the tutorial system, is threatened; new concepts of the old truism, intellectual balance within the student body, spread doubt that a worthy theory will be applied. The faculty may already be committed to the General Education Plan, but the undergraduate body stands at the shore...
...novelist has no business with types; they are the property of economists and politicians and advertisers and other professional bores of our period. . . . The Common Man does not exist. He is an abstraction invented by bores for bores. Even you, dear Mrs. Schultz, are an individual...
...worried at the charge of snobbery. Class-consciousness, particularly in England, has been so much inflamed nowadays that to mention a nobleman is like mentioning a prostitute 60 years ago. The new prudes say: 'No doubt such people do exist but we would sooner not hear about them.' I reserve the right to deal with the kind of people I know best...