Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to be a great and fine thing, and it is going to do away completely with the speakeasy. Many people say that repeal will not end the speakeasy; they claim that it will be able to undersell the legal restaurants and taverns. This is impossible, for to exist they must charge exorbitant prices in order to meet the expense of bringing in or making the illicit liquor. Who will pay prices that are equal to, if not more than, our prices to go speaking around drinking bad liquor...
...student waiting in the Houses, these objections have unofficially and implicity been made evident. The fact that student waiting is permitted in the Freshman Union and in the Business School, but not in the Houses, points to the University's fears for the tenderly nurtured gentility now supposed to exist in the Houses, and indicates its assumption that the waiters from the undergraduate body would do much to destroy this gentility. This fear, the available evidence shows, is not only groundless but in any case inapplicable in a time of emergency. In the first place, it has been customary...
...lynchings are a conviction of the legal system under which they exist. Unless the lawyers of the country shake off their professional squeamishness against change the stage will be set for ku kluxers, vigilantes, and "crazed mobs" to step into the breach...
...Will the House allow me," handsomely replied Sir Austen, "to thank the right honorable gentleman for the very handsome way in which he has treated this incident, and to say I hope it will not weaken, but will confirm the friendly relations which should exist between members sitting on opposite sides of the House...
...scoreless tie. At Yale, College residents on probation are allowed to represent their Colleges, even in the championship contests against the Harvard Houses. This provision has resulted in a strange comedy of errors this fall, with Harvard coyly dickering with Yale to repeal a rule which didn't exist in New Haven...