Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote he: "In the eyes of more than half the world we are making an exhibition of ourselves in the Philippines. . . . Conditions exist there which are at present nothing short of scandalous. . . . The attempt was made to impose the nationalist ideal upon a group of peoples having no need for it ... on the highly unsound assumption that what was good for us was good for the Malays. . . . While the Spaniards killed the Filipinos with cruelty, we are reducing them to nothingness with kindness. . . . The American Governor General of the Philippines is one of the hopeless creations in the whole...
...especially fortunate here at Harvard in having an engineering school of only moderate size so that the contact between student and faculty is much closer than can possibly exist in institutions with a large student body. And if our faculty is of the right sort, as I firmly believe it is, this contact cannot help but aid the development of character in the students themselves. Our laboratories, though not so impressive in size as are those of some of the technical schools, have a very fine equipment both as to variety and genuine usefulness. Our methods of instruction are sound...
...more interesting aspects of the Boston survey, conducted by the Bureau for the Mayor's Street Traffic Advisory Board, was a study of sidewalk saturation, made to determine. If possible, an index to sidewalk width in relation to pedestrian volume. It was found that sidewalk convenience ceased to exist at 800 pedestrians per foot of sidewalk width per hour...
...Congress is ready to consider and adopt legislation to carry out the Administration's recommendations for more adequate law enforcement machinery, those whose duty it is to enforce the law will be able to accomplish more. . . . Determined and unceasing pressure from the President for enforcement. . . . Such deficiencies as exist . . . are not due to lack of will . . . either at the top or the bottom...
Doctors sometimes call a benign tumor a cancer. Other times they do not recognize a cancer until after the patient's death. The ratio of incorrect diagnoses is 10%. Every suspected case of cancer in a community should be referred to a central cancer bureau such as exist in Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia. So recommended Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan cancer specialist, last week. Those bureaus have clinical and pathological experts who review a cancer diagnosis before the surgeon operates or a radiologist burns away the excrescent tissues. Thus they can prevent many a useless operation, much needless suffering...