Word: extant
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...Extant is an old French print showing the future King Louis XIV playing when dauphin with his Yo-Yo-a child's top so made that when thrown from the hand it starts to spin as its string unwinds, then winds up the string on itself and returns to the hand. During the past two years a Yo-Yo craze has swept Europe. Among smart Parisians, Berliners and Londoners are hundreds of exalted Yo-Yo addicts, notably Edward of Wales. Just before Edouard Herriot fell as Premier of France, a Paris weekly pictured his frantic appeals to all sections...
...basis of 1830 methods six million men would have been needed to cultivate the soil for the 1929 U. S. wheat crop. With the best extant equipment (such as 60-duckfoot gang plows) 4,000 men could have planted the whole crop...
...Capt. A. M. Simpson there are innumerable stories extant in San Francisco's lumber and shipping world. In his way he was as striking a figure as Dolbeer. When Kyne tells about the manipulations of "Cappy Ricks'' in the pine business, chalk down a story about A. M. Simpson...
...Club as a whole. In matter of controversy it is quite impossible that a general meeting be called before any step is taken by the officers; therefore it has been the practical Club policy to function as an "autocracy" if anyone wishes to use this term. The only extant Constitution of the Liberal Club was created in 1920 and was last amended in 1928 and until a new one is framed there shall have to be, I am afraid, a transitional period minus "authority...
...information contained in Life Portraits of George Washington, a privately printed volume by John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, 2 7 painters and sculptors made representations of Washington. Since many of these artists subsequently copied their own work it is impossible to determine how many life portraits are extant. Charles Willson Peale is responsible for about 67 portraits and miniatures of 14 general types; Raphaelle Peale, his eldest son, at least two: Rembrandt Peale, his second son, six; James Peale, his younger brother, II; Charles Peale Polk, his nephew, numerous copies. John Trumbull and Edward Savage, eleven each; Houdon, seven...