Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cosmic rays exist. How they are formed and where are the great conundrums...
Most economists view R. F. C. as inflation?the creation of credit where credit did not exist before. But President Hoover, like many another man to whom words are good or bad per se, dislikes the word inflation, prefers to call his relief policies counter-deflation. Business and banking have been spinning in a downward spiral?bank runs, heavy sales of assets to keep liquid, reduced security values, more fear, more runs, more sales, still lower values. It is to arrest this process that the Government has interposed R. F. C. on the theory that $2,000,000,000 will...
...turns up should be seen from a conservative view, in order to make that opinion more rational and correct," Dr. Harris continued. These people have broken with traditional forms of religion, but regard religious ideas with a fitting ethical seriousness. They have no clear grasp of the difference which exist between intelligent men of different religious beliefs, according to the lecturer...
Again, well-meaning benefactors establish scholarships to which are attached all manner of strings. The $600 Leavenworth Scholarship has gone begging since 1919 for want of a student with that name. Other funds exist for the use of the sons of retired Naval officers. In many cases, the scholarship exists where no candidate can be found who complies with the terms of the bequest. At a time when every scholarship could easily be put to immediate use, this situation is nothing short of a calamity. The University is powerless to use any of this money that is tied...
...Accordingly, let U. S. colleges and universities continue as they are; they do good work in training the masses of ineducable persons. Private enterprise may some day found a series of educational institutions and take up once more the Great Tradition. Until then, says Dr. Nock, "there does not exist a university or an undergraduate college, in the traditional and proper sense, anywhere in the country. ... No such thing [as an education] is possible in any American institution with which I am acquainted." Author- Professor Nock, born 59 years ago in Scranton, Pa., is a tall, rosy-cheeked pundit...