Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercise, have on their list of favorites Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, the Stork Club, Yale, the film You Can't Take It with You, the New Yorker magazine.* Although Vassar is expensive ($1,855 a year), Mrs. Allen declares that "the snobbishness of wealth just does not exist there," there are no sororities, one-fifth of the students get scholarships...
...Love's Old Sweet Song Saroyan has abandoned his boozy lyricism in favor of boyish pranks. A few of the pranks-including a visit to the Okies of something that does not exist-a traveling "college boy" subscription salesman for TIME-are quite funny. So are bits of the dialogue. But the play as a whole confuses bounce with brashness, hews to no comedic line, and eventually becomes as tiresome as a precocious child whose parents let him show off long past bedtime...
...there are no apparent reasons for the variations which exist at present. They would seem to be the result of a lack of supervision and coordination in the College as a whole. Certainly it is unfair for some departments to require twice as much work from their tutors as do other departments. Formal standards, at least, should be the same throughout the College for tutors of equal rank and equal salary...
...company as smart as Victor would risk millions in stock and Red Seal name for a Black Label record--unless that new medium would provide a market for itself and later developments which would make it profitable. Black Label and Red Seal don't seem compatible. Black Label can exist only at over doubled volume--which Victor can't handle with its present facilities. The film process can be adapted to handle itself and the old method--consequently where the woodpile and who's going...
...while the editors take their part of the contract seriously, turning out a paper that is attractive and readable, the college does not begin to do its part, which consists in providing the Advocate writers with an interested and critical audience. For a college literary magazine does not exist merely to provide a kind of last-day-of-school, prize-day exhibition platform on which the students can show off their talents. It exists for the purpose of making communication possible, on a literary plane, between the literate part of the college and those students who are concerned to interpret...