Word: exist
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...conspired against the public good and that ''for the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15." In July the monopoly was split into 34 separate companies (splinters, Wall Street called them) and the great oil monopoly officially ceased to exist. But the largest Standard splinters remain the largest of U. S. oil companies; the Standard group still controls roughly 50% of the industry. Among the major companies once constituent portions of the oil monopoly, now separate but still prosperous...
...clipping from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, printed in an adjoining column, voices, somewhat too vociferously perhaps, criticism of an attitude that is altogether too common in these United States. No one will deny that there are obvious broadening advantages for an American who studies in England, but similar advantages exist for the Englisher who attends a university in this country...
Wrote he: "In the eyes of more than half the world we are making an exhibition of ourselves in the Philippines. . . . Conditions exist there which are at present nothing short of scandalous. . . . The attempt was made to impose the nationalist ideal upon a group of peoples having no need for it ... on the highly unsound assumption that what was good for us was good for the Malays. . . . While the Spaniards killed the Filipinos with cruelty, we are reducing them to nothingness with kindness. . . . The American Governor General of the Philippines is one of the hopeless creations in the whole...
SMETANA'S QUARTET IN E MINOR, by the Flonzaley Quartet (Victor, $6.50)- The Flonzaleys exist now only on records. The Smetana is neatly balanced, its moods, gay and foreboding, clearly defined...
...especially fortunate here at Harvard in having an engineering school of only moderate size so that the contact between student and faculty is much closer than can possibly exist in institutions with a large student body. And if our faculty is of the right sort, as I firmly believe it is, this contact cannot help but aid the development of character in the students themselves. Our laboratories, though not so impressive in size as are those of some of the technical schools, have a very fine equipment both as to variety and genuine usefulness. Our methods of instruction are sound...