Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undaunted by the fact that he had an angry President on his hands was "Admiral" Gardiner. Well did he know that any such inquiry as the President proposed would help to advertise his Big Navy idea, would stir the public mind on the naval deficiencies he honestly believed to exist. His only comment...
Chicago traders attributed this rise in wheat prices, with other grains tagging along, entirely to the Soviet crop failure. Not only was the Russian production short but grade was inferior. Russia had contracted to supply many a European market with wheat which did not exist. While Soviet officials scrambled to buy back their contracts, France, Germany, Italy turned to the U. S. and Canada for their supply. The Australian and Argentine crops would not come in until January. Meanwhile Europe was reported to have a scant four weeks supply (65,000,000 bu.) of wheat on hand fit for milling...
Last year the Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Karl Landsteiner. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute is also endowed (for $640.000) by the Rockefeller Institute. There Dr. Warburg has studied tumor cells, has found that cancerous cells can exist and multiply for a limited time altogether without oxidation (a condition which is also true of some normal cells and which therefore is not the explanation of cancer). He is 48, has been head of the biology department of the Institute for 21 years. He is the son of the late great Physicist Emil Warburg...
...theorist Mr. Pollock commands attention by virtue of his efforts to purge the present day theatre of much of its coarseness, of its melodramatic tendencies, and of its often brutal realism. In accomplishing this end the play wright would exist the virtues of John Doe, showing that the lives of good, simple people often contain dramatic material of the first order, which may be converted into the proper sort of the artist is keen enough to see in the shiny serge suit of John Doe the flashing cuirass of a true knight...
...through the field of science there exist such opposed arguments, yet a deep faith in the infallibility of scientific investigation clings to minds that have long since rejected faith in the infallibility of the Church. Critical perception is dulled by the glamour of famous names; so that the educated world, from being priest-ridden, has become expert-ridden. The coming of Dr. de Sitter is an exemplary occasion for the expression of scientific agnosticism...