Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presumption underlying our thinking is the simple one,--that there must be better ways than now exist of determining individual qualities and capacities of a man, and that these ways may be found...
...succeeded Newton W. Rowell as chairman of the Commission, and for two years he labored tirelessly to produce what came to be known as the Rowell-Sirois Report - virtually a new constitution for Canada. The report was a plan to end the incoherence, irregularity and overlapping of powers which exist among the nine provinces of Canada, to centralize fiscal and social policies in the Dominion Government at Ottawa, to make Canada a single nation instead of the loose federation of practically autonomous provinces which it has been for 73 years...
Publisher Cerf had no such hopes. Smart Random House had caught on to the Donne boom as soon as it began, promptly ordered 1,500 sheets of its Nonesuch edition from England. Just as promptly the Nazis bombed them out of existence. Says Publisher Cerf: "I know for sure that no sheets of the Nonesuch Donne exist in England." Whether the plates also had been destroyed, he was not sore...
This change is more than a compromise to bring certain college courses up to date. It marks an attitude which did not exist on the eve of the last war. Then, we took the worth of democracy for granted, and looked forward to cleaning up the world and giving every nation the advantages of our institutions. We looked forward with unquestioning assurance to the contemplation of glorious triumph. The war was an end in itself. And afterwards? Why worry; peace on earth would follow. Now we are faced with a force which has proved its strength against what we thought...
...Brothers Davis kept their customary silence. A subordinate barked that the trouble, if any, was not with the aluminum supply but with little Northrop's inability to plan its orders, stock up in advance. Commissioner Stettinius harshly denounced Northrop for reporting "shortages which do not exist," declared that the company had already resumed a full working schedule. Mr. Stettinius was less explicit when he said: "[There are] no serious shortages in aluminum . . . now required for national defense. Certain temporary delays in delivery will doubtless occur. ..." That ALCOA could supply defense demands without curtailing its ordinary commercial business, Mr. Stettinius...