Word: existent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some instances 100 times as great as that in men. . . . Birds do not see blues and violets at all. This helps in their distance vision because the haze which hangs about distant objects and which, for our eyes, renders them more or less invisible, for birds does not exist. Birds, on the other hand, see infra-red radiations which, for us, affect only the temperature sense of the skin and not the retinas...
...dishwashing for three hours a day. And from the standpoint of the University, the work done by students under the Plan is superfluous. For despite protestations by department heads and House masters that work under the Plan is useful, the fact remains that the temporary jobs have never existed before, and will never exist again if the Plan is discontinued...
...these are gone, and their ghosts exist only in critiques of the period. Ida Tarboll is remembered chiefly for her popular inanity, 'Lincoln.' Baker is linked solely with his book on Wilson. Lawson, Lloyd, Phillips, Russell--they are resurrected as local color for an historical novel and then return to comfortable obscurity. Lincoln Steffens, more virile than the others, survived two revolutions and awaits a third. But to survive he has had to cut himself loose from the mentality of the epoch in which he made his name known; his companion passed civilly away in the dull garb of progressivism...
Physicists have wanted to see energy in the process of becoming mass. Photographs of the tracks of electric particles passing through fog chambers exist to prove the transformation, which can be accomplished in three ways...
...board. Last week in answering Mr. Holmes's attack Texaco officials swore that as long as Mr. Holmes was president he had never asked for more directors; that many of his accusations were just not true; that by omitting many material facts he suggested conditions which did not exist. At the same time Texaco announced the election of three new directors representing estates of Texaco founders and the resignation of Henry G. Lapham, Boston broker and donor of Yale's famed field house, who had wanted to leave Texaco for the last six months. Oilmen nodded knowingly...