Word: existing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seat. A New York Stock Exchange seat was sold last week for $415,000. The previous high price was $398,000, negotiated last May. The Exchange has 1,100 members. No indications exist that the membership will be increased and thus depreciate the value of seats...
Maybe the Literary Digest don't know that you exist yet. Maybe they don't think you are a national magazine. Maybe they are quibblers and in this way recognize TIME as the national newsmagazine and themselves as an ordinary national periodical...
...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...
...would be especially difficult for President Coolidge to make all U.S. citizens write English in Arabic characters because most of them already know how to write in Latin letters: But this obstacle does not exist for President Kemal, 80% of whose people do not know one letter of any alphabet from another. The President hopes that in two years his people, with nothing to unlearn, will have learned to express old sounds in new letters...
...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...