Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near one to the other is every part of the world. Modern inventions have brought into close relation widely separated peoples. Geographic and political divisions will continue to exist, but distances have been effaced. . . . Isolation is no longer possible or desirable. . . . The period of exclusiveness is past...
...much of abiding by signed agreements and official promises. The occupation of the Baltic States was accomplished by diplomatic pressure. The military occupation of part of Poland, the Russian argument runs, took place after the Government of Poland with which Russia had a non-aggression pact had ceased to exist. Fin land was attacked on the somewhat flimsy grounds that the Finns allegedly fired first. Nevertheless, Russia's efforts to keep the peace of Europe were stronger than most. She tried to give the League vitality. She led the way in making bilateral pacts...
...have a right to the Baltic States and Bessarabia, do not like to hear Americans question that right. When Columnist Constantine Brown did just that last week, Pravda answered angrily: "Why should he not make a generous present of California or Alaska to the United States? Do there not exist curious people who are ready to present to the Soviet Union parts of the latter's own territory...
...specialized schools now in training here. Everything from WAVES to Marines grace Cambridge's streets, and representatives of countless branches from the Chaplains to soil experts can be spotted around the Yard. Research projects have taken up many of the University's laboratories--but beyond the fact that they exist, little is publicly known about them...
...years ago, she came upon Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita. For no special reason she took out this 300-page commentary on India's famous religious and philosophic poem, whose origin is lost in history. She read how "the lower in us must learn to exist for the higher in order that the higher also may in us consciously exist for the lower, to draw it nearer to its own altitudes." Fascinated, she read on until the guards closed the library. Next day she was back again...