Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Democracy Survive?" by Professor J. Anton de Haas. Professor de Haas was followed by Professor A. H. Hansen, who spoke on "The Impact of a Totalitarian Victory on the American Economy," and suggested that a German Europe and a British-American-Far Eastern economic bloc could exist side by side...
...19th-Century stargazer once said that Mercury "seems to exist for no other reason than to throw discredit on astronomers." Last week the little planet (diameter 3,100 miles) was scheduled for a transit across the blazing face of the sun. From complicated formulas and tables, scientists had carefully determined the time. But when astronomers at Mt. Wilson's famed observatory shot the passage with motion-picture film synchronized with a clock, they found Mercury was 30 seconds late for its performance...
...called it "Vulcan." He looked long and hard for it. Once a doctor peering through a telescope thought he saw Vulcan. He and Leverrier announced the discovery, were given banquets and medals for their find. But they never saw it again, nor did anyone else. Apparently "Vulcan" does not exist...
...evil like cancer exist if all that God created was good?" challenged a heckler. "Cancer is not an evil," retorted Roman Catholic Father David I. Dorsch of Baltimore. "Sin alone is evil, because sin alone keeps man from his final...
...continued, "the treatment of dismissed students with such a conception of the university, and especially of a state university. Dismissal without charges, unsupported allegations of being a 'disturbing influence,' denial of an open hearing--these are not the methods by which a democratic society can long continue to exist...