Word: existence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...person of today most when studying French are the peculiar vowels, such as u, eu and mute e, and the nasal vowels an, en, in, on and un. These difficulties are not found to so great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike the first two letters...
...Belligerent rights should not be granted the insurgents:- (a) Recognition is a question of fact: F. Snow, Cases, p. 24; Wharton's Digest, I, 387.- (b) War does not actually exist.- (1) No organized insurgent government-(2) No ports, revenue, organized communication with outside world: Nation, LXI. 249; Harper's Weekly...
...Catholic Church's view of liberty is singularly inconsistent. In England and America it stands forward as the champion of liberty. In Spain, Austria, and Belgium, where the Catholic Church has paramount authority, liberty does not exist. The Catholic Church claims, too, that it has always been the ideal of truth and honesty. As a matter of fact the reverse is the case. The Church now denies the concessions it made on being allowed to have freedom of worship in England in 1825. It openly admits the imposition of "pious frauds," and claims that faith need not be kept with...
...collection to be completed, but the space for doing it is still contracted, and the books will be slowly returned from the books will be slowly returned from the outer depositories. Enough additional shelving is secured to prevent crowding for a few years only; and there will still exist the urgent necessity for a new and extensive reading room outside the present walls. Such a structure should also give increased accommodations for official quarters and professors' rooms. When ultimately this new reading room is secured, the three-story stack in Gore Hall can be carried up four more stories, thus...
EXETER, N. H., Sept. 23.- A new committee such as never before existed in the history of Phillips Exeter Academy is at once to be appointed. It will be called the advisory committee, and the members will be selected from the faculty in order that a closer relationship shall exist between the students and the faculty...