Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great importance of radiogens in Dr. Crile's mind is that, if they really exist, they may explain how plants add oxygen & hydrogen to carbon dioxide to make sugar, how animals add oxygen to sugar to form carbon dioxide-chemical reactions which require access of considerable energy...
...Military Science department at Harvard is similar to those that exist in the majority of the large Universities throughout the country. The course of instruction, divided over a period of four years, is open to those men who are able to carry an extra subject and are interested in securing their commission. Although the training received is mostly that of artillery, a man in the course spends the summer of his Junior year in Camp Ethan Allen. The camp is equipped to afford adequate training in the operation of cannon and regular ground maneuvers. It is in the camping period...
...years pass and memories of that unified spirit that characterized the nation in the vigorous prosecution of the World War becomes somewhat vague, there continues to grow a calm and determined insistence that opportunity shall continue to exist whereby the sons of Harvard may prepare themselves to serve as commissioned officers in case of a national emergency involving the use of the armed forces. Happily the R.O.T.C. serves this useful purpose while the student is an undergraduate...
...most unexpected personal characteristic is that he never looks at a man's face and never recognizes a face. ... He can be relentless to the point of cruelty: the shock of his anger, which is a cold, quiet, laughing anger, is violent. ... He does not believe that heroes exist or ever have existed; he suspects them all of being frauds ... an incurable romantic . . . obvious menace to civilization...
...decision handed down last week by the U. S. Supreme Court showed that Old Man Venner is still at it. He knows what courts are for-rich old Clarence Venner does. They exist for the purpose of enabling a smart fellow to annoy his neighbors, especially when, as in these days, his neighbors are big corporations...