Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Astronomer Royal. A hardheaded, straight-thinking scientist, who refers to writings of Eddington and Jeans as "romance," he is, ex officio, director of Greenwich Observatory and responsible for Greenwich time's astronomical integrity.* The question he has heard most often in his 50-year career is: Does life exist on other worlds? Astronomer Jones set out to assemble the evidence in the case, published his conclusions last week in Life on Other Worlds (Macmillan...
Much work remains to be done on matters connected with education in the College. In this report we have attempted to lay the foundations for a system which might remedy some the defects that have been found to exist in the College's instruction. Next year's Council could expand our plan and make it even more specific, both in its content an its organization. The tutorial system, which the Teachers' Union investigated from the point of view of administration and personnel, might well be considered from the student's point of view, with the objet of discovering what part...
...Order in Asia. Yet China fought on. In return the Western democracies had helped China considerably, but first through witlessness and later through helplessness had done considerably more to smooth the path of Japan. The Open Door was closed now, perhaps forever. Britain and France had ceased to exist in the Chinese reckoning. There was talk of the U. S. Navy occupying the British base at Singapore to safeguard democratic interests in the Far East. But a cargo of San Francisco's old streetcar tracks was about to leave the U. S. last week to make more guns...
...executive seat Room 73 on the third floor. Nobody has ever had much luck running a country from a hotel room, as Pierre Laval well knows. Furthermore, "Free France" (as Vichy calls the unoccupied two-fifths of the nation) is a land of want and hardship which cannot exist disconnected from the rest of France. Every week some common useful thing disappears from the lives of its people...
Aims? No. "It is their warfare, and not their philosophy and purpose, that is a menace to American democracy. Both seek to move and have their beings within the framework of capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production and distribution. . . . Both exist primarily to achieve and preserve collective-bargaining agreements. . . . Both stress round-table conferences and negotiations with employers as the most sensible and effective way of settling differences. . . . Both regard strikes as a last resort. . . . Both consider the wage-or salary -earner not as a class-conscious helot, but as a middle-class-conscious American having...