Word: extant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance, and sent organizers among the Canal Zone's 25,000 Panamanian and West Indian employees, most of whom lived in crowded slums across the fence in Panama. They found a Communist's dream. Ready for their exploiting was one of the worst examples of racial discrimination extant anywhere, and it was sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
...stopped their manufacture, enabling us to print in Philadelphia and Chicago (and thus keep up with our rising circulation) and to hold the magazine open later for last minute news without disrupting our distribution schedules. Now, TIME'S domestic edition, which is the fastest magazine printing operation extant (well over 1,500,000 copies in 24 hours), is also printed in Los Angeles, 2,500 miles from our editorial offices...
...easy to call Professor Elliott wrong. But when a man of his standing ponders out loud the worth of the most promising extant venture in student cooperation and comes up with the wrong conclusions, it is all the more important he be answered...
...extant pay scales were adequate before the war they are obviously unsuited to present conditions. Despite the myth expounded by one responsible University official that student expenses are little if any higher than in previous years, tuition is the only fee that has remained unchanged. Room rents are higher, food rates are higher, the medical fee is going up, and the costs of books and clothing would have seemed fantastic a few years ago. Only the subway fare remains the same...
Daniel Gookin, the third librarian, was able to move the collection almost single handed to its new location in Harvard Hall, in 1676, for which "pains" the Corporation paid him 50 shillings. Extant catalogues of the 1750's show the library, which was recognized as the most important in the country, with the sum total of 5,000 volumes...