Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high time someone did something about it. What was needed, said Pound, was a whole new series of translations, freed of the false and stilted elegance of those then in print. "The border line between 'gee whiz' and Milton's tumified* dialect must exist," Pound wrote. Why didn't his friend try to find...
...Allow an "impartial commission" to determine whether there exist in East Germany the conditions necessary for free elections. Such conditions-free balloting, freedom to campaign, etc.-must be maintained "not only on the day of voting, and prior to it, but also thereafter...
...life expectancy for the Egyptian villager at birth is 15 to 20 years. Half the children die before five. An Egyptian reduced the foundation's discoveries to one doleful sentence. "In Egypt," said ex-Minister of Social Affairs Ahmed Hussein Pasha, "the elements of decent life do not exist for the mass of the people, and this is the true measure of our social development...
...sell in quantities totaling more than 2 billion Ibs. a year, and go into everything from an antifreeze (ethylene glycol) to cigarettes, aspirin, and synthetic Vitamin Blt More than a third of Carbide's earnings ($104 million in 1951) comes from products and processes that did not even exist in 1939. Among them: the process for making butadiene from alcohol which provided 90% of all U.S. World War II synthetic rubber; synthetic gems which outshine the original; polyethylene plastics whose uses range from radar insulation to flexible bottles. "Research," says Morse Dial, whose company has spent upwards...
...their hands. The question, however one answers it, concerns a highly private matter, one's philosophy of life, and there are almost as many answers as there are citizens. Why, on such an issue, should the state decide for each individual that a spiritual vacuum actually does exist, that there is only one thing that can fill it, and that religion is that one thing? Each individual must decide these questions for himself, unless he would rather have others do his thinking for him, and the state must studiously avoid taking sides. The place for pressure is the home...