Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teachers' Unions do already exist; there is at the present moment a local operating at Yale. But before a union can be formed of the teachers of Cambridge, or of Harvard by itself, certain crucial questions will have to be considered and thoroughly deliberated. In the first place, does the nature of teaching, being in its higher forms essentially the giving of personal conclusions, allow of any regimentation? Dramatists' have been known to balk at the name of playwright on the grounds that it levels them with the cartwright and the wheelwright. Hence it is doubtful that teachers, every...
...Haas, who once was a fruit-grower himself, explained that somewhere in the earth below the apple a gold deposit must exist. He also explained that his indicator would do much more than locate an ore body. If, when suspended above an ore body, it swung back & forth 100 times, then the bottom of the ore body was 100 feet below the earth's surface. If it oscillated in a circle 20 times, then the ore contained one ounce of gold to the ton. Judging how far below the earth the top of an ore body might...
...Republican George H. Moses, onetime New Hampshire Senator, tartly remarked that the country was "going to hell in a hack," that the "sons of the wild jackass are multiplying like jack-rabbits," that "this country cannot continue to exist half Roosevelt, half Frankfurter...
...driven by a burning ambition for success and utter inability to share his individuality with anyone make happy marriage with a quiet loving virtuous, unambitious woman. Mr. Bary's answer is an unhesitating "no" and his play rives on to the inevitable tragedy. Hanna realizes that he can exist only for himself that he cannot make the compromise with his inner self which marriage necessitates. This problem is worked out with skill and directness but in so doing Mr. Barry frequently forgets that his characters are human and cannot be shunted about like chess-men. There is an abstract mechanical...
Emphasizing the economic as well as the physical handicaps under which the Esquimaux exist, Sir Wilfred went on to explain many of the adverse features of native life. Among these he mentioned malnutrition, poorly constructed ships, poor markets for fur and fish catches, and the comparative lack of adequate medical facilities...