Word: exist
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Beside libraries, restaurants, cocktail bars and royal robing rooms, there exist in the mazes of the Houses of Parliament a number of bathrooms, complete with tubs and towels, for the benefit of statesmen who wish to purify themselves between debates. Several months ago white-haired George Lansbury, total abstainer, First Commissioner of Public Works, suddenly decided that it was only right and proper for women M. P.'s to have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also. With some difficulty and no little expense he set aside one of the Parliamentary bathrooms, tastefully shrouded it in cretonne, appointed...
...slightly irregular. It was man's mathematical ability to measure such orbital variations that permitted Astronomer Lowell to declare that an unknown planet was butting Neptune's orbit out of its regularly irregular shape and to predict just where in the heavens a sufficiently powerful telescope, which did not exist during his life, would reveal...
Europeans traveling in America are apt to ejaculate at the degree with which this nation is woman-governed and they sometimes add, woman-ridden. In all chivalry, the American can ask such a European to name one country where' such conditions do not exist. The immense power which women have over what might be called the national pulse, bolstered by their influence in the education of the next generation, and culminated in some countries by the new power to vote, forces the defenseless male between a Devil of the emotions and a deep sea of domesticity. The only trouble with...
Boldly displayed without an accompanying article of any kind was a map of England and Wales?such a map as no living man could make of the U. S., for the necessary information does not exist. Entitled lugubriously WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS: Unemployment At A Glance, the map shows from official statistics of the Ramsay MacDonald Labor Government exactly the percentage of unemployment in each and every British county, not forgetting "Salop" the concise if nonsensical abbreviation for "Shropshire...
These are not frivolous objections. Very possibly they are unjustified, but the fact that they exist presents a formidable psychological obstacle at the outset of the experiment, one that requires tactful handling. N. Y. Herald-Tribune...