Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merging four banks at once would be difficult at any time. Unusual obstacles arose which threatened to block this long-awaited deal. A peculiar situation was known to exist in Bank of the United States. In 1913 this bank was formed in Manhattan's lower East Side. By 1928 it had grown one thousand-fold without a merger. Then, after Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. acquired a large block of its stock, it began to whirl through a period of expansion. Since May 1929 it has lost one-fourth of its deposits; its shares have tumbled from...
...present uniform is simple, moderately dignified, and wholly practical. It is distressing to notice how widespread is the belief that college undergraduates exist purely to put on a good show for the crowds that fill the football stadia. If the band's costume be criticized for being too "high-schooly", it might be remembered that after all Harvard is only a college, and not the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navy, the Boston fire Department, nor even the American Legion...
...interview ever granted by Comrade Stalin. (His first was granted four years ago to a fellow Asiatic, the correspondent of Japan's Osaka Mainichi Shimbun.) At Correspondent Lyons' request, the Dictator confirmed a general impression that he has a wife (no picture of her is known to exist), stated that he has three children: a son, 22, who is "studying technical railroading in school"; another son, 10; a daughter...
...those far-future times, of what life was like to subterranean man. For as the ice spread and the earth grew colder, civilization either died or dug. First it "established itself around the equator, a civilization of peoples with one dominating idea-to continue to exist. Great circular cities were built consisting of low buildings which hugged the ground . . . cities like gigantic mushrooms, walled and roofed in materials magnifying the little warmth that still emanated from the sun, shutting out snow and cold." Finally even these failed. "Into the frozen earth bored the huge electric drills...
...common rooms. If these rooms of the Houses are to prove attractive to the undergraduate they must become more than mere reading rooms where magazines are provided for the entertainment of the residents. The failure of the Freshman Halls to bring any variation in the monotonous round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing in the old path. Common rooms will never break down social barriers at Harvard: they can, however, furnish in the Houses a place for informal musical entertainment, group meetings, and similar functions...