Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neither marked similarities exist between the Houses within each group, nor marked differences between each group," he continued, "and therefore the two sides should arbitrarily bear names symbolizing undergraduate enthusiasm for campus life. The Wintergreens and Rineharts would echo cries partisans of either side could readily embrace...
Until World War II, says Chalmers, U.S. thinking in general was hopelessly adrift. It had degenerated into a superficial sentimentalism, dominated "by wishes which were taken for facts" and by "the widespread conviction . . . that evil does not really exist in individuals, but arises only because of bad arrangements among them." In their blind pursuit of objectivity, scholars had become as indifferent to values as scientists, and semanticists had concluded that "ideas behind words are so varying and inconstant that all we really have left at any time is names." All in all, it was the era of the abolished absolute...
What does not change, said Tillich, is "the Protestant principle," a prophetic power to call men to an awareness of God's infinite nature and their own limitations. Tillich held that the Protestant principle has existed since the dawn of Christianity, and must exist because it is necessary to Christianity. It is the "protesting" voice of the prophet outside the temple calling the people back to God and away from the formalism and sophistries of the priest...
...facts clearly show that the type of air transport capable of meeting the requirements for worldwide fleet replacement does not exist; such an aircraft still is pretty much on the drawing board both here and abroad. At this time, this country has a distinct advantage from the standpoint of future power plants both as to size and fuel economy. The realistic conclusion ... is that we are not behind the British with respect to the jet transports that will comprise the air fleets of the future. Rather, we are probably in position to accomplish more quickly the final objective of world...
...those novels is an illustration of his cheerful philosophy-a belief whose statement has faint overtones of Jimmy Durante, faint undertones of the incorrigible schoolboy. The world, he says, "may not look so good, but it is the best God can do at the time, with conditions as they exist." He also likens the world to an old sow, which would lie down lazily in the muck and never move, if it were not for the gadflies-the rebels, artists and other eccentrics-that buzz and bite in her somnolent...