Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tosses with dysentery, pneumonia or malaria in a hospital, four others suffer, unattended, in bivouac or trench. At the root of all this aching misery is a malnutrition so vast that no one dares try to cope with it. The fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Only the northern troops of provident General Hu Tsung-nan have any health, for he made his men grow their own greens to add to their scant rations...
...Percival Lowell did not "discover" Pluto. He figured out that a ninth planet must exist and predicted where it would be, in 1914. He died in 1916. In 1930 the planet was discovered, right where Lowell had said. His brother, in his biography of Percival, calls it "the planet he found but never...
...with their jobs is gratifyingly unsentimental. He is not strong on "characters," in the novelist's traditional sense; but in his quiet, exact registration of the interdependence of men, of processes, of old and new traditions, he all but convinces one that "characters," in that traditional sense, hardly exist in industry; that their human kind is changed even in its essence by the world they work...
...grass and earth. Starvation may be so prevalent that the cannibalism of 1919 may again strike eastern Europe. Railroads that should carry these desperate people will be totally disorganized; horses may all have been eaten. No reserves of fuel and clothing will be on hand; no state authorities will exist to guide them. China, Japan, Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies will repeat this picture in other versions...
...Quintanilla's book deals primarily with unity in Pan-America, but it is not a plea for it. It is an argument which lines up fact on fact to show that the elements of unity exist, and need only to be recognized. With a scalpel-like touch that cuts clean and deep, he exposes Pan-America's many problems, the differences, distrusts and misconceptions that have slowed its development. He also shows the elements of unity between the 21 Republics: the common aims, history, culture. And, he says, there are more things that bind the nations...