Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Dr. Carl David Anderson of CalTech showed the American Physical Society at Washington a series of cosmic ray pictures providing real evidence that the new particles really do exist. The pictures were made on California's 11,000-ft. White Mountain by a CalTech team working with a "cloud chamber," which records the tracks of charged particles...
...serving maids who still exist have lost the old knack of swooning, and novels, which have become as plentiful as internal-combustion engines, are no longer written, as was Pamela, in the form of letters. More typical of today's mass-production age is the so-called "novel series"-a whole cavalry charge of novels built around one leading figure (Thomas Mann's Joseph books) or one group of figures (Jules Remains' Men of Good Will) or one family (John Galsworthy's Forsytes) or even one dwelling-place (the Jalna of Mazo de la Roche...
...Sunday less than the necessary quorum was present in the dining hall, but since it was felt that those men interested would be represented, the meeting was called to order on the common parliamentary premise that if the chairman declares a quorum to exist, a quorum does exist until it is challenged by a member of the body. Four men were nominated from the floor. At this point the quorum was challenged and the meeting dissolved...
...spotted nine round, shiny, mysterious objects. flipping and flashing along in the sky "like saucers." Since then U.S. newspapers and magazines have credulously - or jokingly- printed hundreds of other stories about flying saucers, usually based on "reports of eyewitnesses." The witnesses generally seemed to believe that flying saucers exist, that they were manufactured by the U.S. or Russia, or came from the outer reaches- maybe from Venus or Mars...
...Dali poke holes in his figures and make everything float? "Modern physics," the artist explained with a twitch of his delicate handlebar mustache, "has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system-today's counterpart of divine gravitation...