Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned that President Hoover had cabled to the Emperor of Abyssinia, sovereign of the greatest slave nation of the world, congratulations on his coronation (TIME, Nov. 10), declaring "on behalf of the American People and Government . . . confidence that the traditional ties of friendship and mutual understanding which so happily exist between our two countries . . . will be strengthened during your majesty's reign...
Grand old Liberian facts, confirmed by the League: 1) No slave markets exist in Liberia, but forced labor indistinguishable from slavery is used on nearly all Government works, frequently diverted to private works by corrupt officials; 2) Children are "pawned" by their parents to work until the parent's debt is discharged; 3) Contract laborers are shipped to French Congo, Spanish Fernando, "under conditions of criminal compulsion...
...France where new millions of gold are piling up every day (see p. 16) and where the unemployment question does not exist, everything was going so well last week that the sudden fall of Prime Minister Andre Tardieu's Cabinet by the Senate could best be attributed to legislative pique...
...keen competition for the international scholarships already in existence enables one to greet the new Charles and Julian Henry Fund stipends with more than nominal welcome. How much good is done to the cause of world peace by such exchange scholarships is largely a matter of opinion. No doubt can exist, however, that there is a large number of men eager to have the opportunity of foreign study, and that the new awards will be sought for in a market where the demand far exceeds the supply...
...groups of serious-minded students gathered in the music room after dinner for a little Bach or Beethoven, or discussing the problems of vis major and concepts of momentum and potential energy with the head tutor over the teacups exist, happily or otherwise, only in the imaginings of the more lyrically inclined correspondents. Nor were the student apartments visited by the investigator inhabited solely by bespectacled fellows deeply immersed in theses on the newly evolved science of bio-psychology or the declension of the Coptic verbs. He was, in point of actual fact, treated to some of the most adroitly...