Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university, the destination of the competitive express is social prestige. In the larger world, the first station is making money. What an extraordinary resemblance there is between the two types of competition! Both tend to foster equality of opportunity. Both help to keep the society in which they exist from becoming stratified. In both the goal is an immediate and definite one, the dividends make their appearance early. The campus "big shot" and the "rugged individualist" of business have much in common...
Every year it is custom of the Council to make some report to President Lowell regarding conditions that exist in the College. One of the Council's greatest reports came in 1926, when E. C. Aswell '26 and W. I. Nichols '26 set forth in their report a modified version of the House Plan as it is now in operation. This started from the CRIMSON platform for the year 1925-26. The initial plan of the committee of the Council to study educational methods suggested a course reduction and more tutors, among them older men who were professors and instructors...
Meanwhile the Reichstag's Supervisory Committee, which continues to exist after a Reichstag has been dissolved, exercised its specific constitutional right to summon the Chancellor and his Ministers for examination. They simply did not come. Phlegmatic Germans let the matter rest there. Adolf Hitler quit Berlin for his Munich headquarters. There were no riots. Calmly, majestically President von Hindenburg proceeded to out-Hitler Hitler by issuing yet another drastic decree...
...York's Senator Robert F. Wagner introduced, among other features of his proposed Unemployment relief legislation, the idea of lending Federal funds for city slum clearance. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, born in rural Germany but raised in a teeming tenement district of Manhattan, well knows the housing conditions that exist and are for the most part steadfastly ignored, even denied, in every city in the land. Alfred Emanuel Smith and other political friends of Senator Wagner with city backgrounds lent him their support in pushing the idea of slum clearance with Federal funds on a self-amortizing basis. Thus...
...Herr von Papen, your bloody objectivity does not exist for me. I am not suited to become the executioner of patriotic fighters for freedom. . . . Heaven may send us torture upon torture but our movement will be able to finish this guillotine government...