Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pettigrew. Complications are presented in prophetic remarks that so uncannily diagnose the future and which he so inopportunely drops along the way. Throughout, of course, there is a philosophical background which contends that eternity is one in the mind of God and that the past, present, and future ever exist there...
...American universities are to exist, according to the spirit and will of their Christian founders, it will be necessary to clean all places of learning of their alien anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-America, and anti-al things beautiful and pure Satanic elements. A new spiritual deal must now start...
...stealthy negotiation from the Soviet Government: "The Crucifixion" and the "Last Judgement," generally attributed to Hubert van Eyck. Belittlers have insisted that the small panels (each 22¼ by 7¾ in.) do not belong together: they have hinted that no such person as Hubert van Eyck ever existed. Nobody has ever denied that the two panels have been among the greatest treasures of the Leningrad Hermitage Museum for more than 80 years, that with their gay Flemish color, their microscopic detail yet breadth of execution-photographs of the tiny panels make them look like murals-they are among...
...publishers and General Johnson is typical of the current reaction against the National Recovery Act. There is, it seems, a section of the permanent code which allows the president to license certain industries if "destructive wage or price cutting or other activities contrary to the policy of" NIRA should exist in them. Newspapers, sensing here a possible threat to journalistic freedom, demand that this offending fragment be struck out or amended in some way before their individual code is signed...
Malign our lodgings, (if you can, in the face of such enormous advantages) Never visit them. It is not that. We neither heed calumny, nor need attention. It is the failure to realize their existence that appalls and sickens us. Ignored by the powers who appoint a proctor for every dormitory, unmentioned by that great work "Information in regard to the Freshman Halls with Floor Plans and Prices," forgotten by those who decree that every Freshman Dormitory shall have a representative on the Union Committee (of all things), we should almost welcome even adverse comment. As Lord Denry Wotton said...