Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason for Sleep. A century ago Czech Frantisek Palacky observed: If the Austrian Empire did not exist, it would have to be invented. Advocates of federation hold that the Danube Valley is a unit, self-sufficient if properly organized, a link between Europe and the Balkans if properly conceived, a bulwark against German expansion if properly designed...
Intelligence, and reflection, and judgment, reside in old men, and if there had been none of them, no states could exist...
...England he found equality, which he prized above homage. In 1934 he made the first of several visits to Russia. Russia impressed him even more than England: he had thought that race prejudice could never be entirely stamped out and "here was a country where it did not exist." In 1936 he put his nine-year old son, Paul Jr., to school in Russia because he did not want him to contend with race prejudice "until he is older and his father can be with...
...having missed a copy of TIME since 1929 and hoping not to as long as it or I exist, I am taking this first time to write you a letter and let off a little personal steam about all the noise being made . . . regarding the production decline and manpower shortage...
This week the Navy told how the job was done, listed the various types of boats now in use, and incidentally revealed that two of the largest did not exist even as pilot models two years ago. Less than 20 months before the amphibious operations began, the giant LST vessels (Landing Ship, Tank) were nothing more than an idea. It was four months later than that before British studies revealed the need for an extra big troop landing boat; to meet the need the big LCI-L (Landing Craft, Infantry-Large) was developed...