Word: existence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even if rotary traffic flunks the thirty day test, the Cambridge Planning Beard promises to try other measures. Constantly aware of the danger and annoyance that exist 12 hours a day just outside of Harvard Yard City Man ager Atkinson is at present considering new proposals...
...work by the Council and Dean Leighton. During that time there was continual opposition to representative government on he Yard; the weak articles in the charter were pointed out by proctors, students, and Council members. Although the Council revised the present documents several times, there is no doubt flaws exist and that the provision for amendment will come in handy after this test...
George Bluestone's "The Sewing Machine" commands the most respect. The characters are shrouded in pages of dialogue; at first they seem to exist as impersonal objects, not speaking but spoken about. Yet gradually they assume personalities, and fall into a pattern from which emerges a sympathetic story of disjointed family life...
...rich, Melville turned into "The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries." From Beale's remark that "we cannot fail to be impressed with a truly magnificent idea of the profusion of animal life which must necessarily exist in the ocean's depths," Melville constructed a passage for those who like philosophical meat on their narrative bones...
...inescapable terms, a ruthless counterpart, an avenging mirror of the practical atheism of too many believers who do not actually believe . . . Decorative Faith is nowadays not enough . . . To believe in God must mean to live in such a manner that life cannot be lived if God does not exist...