Word: existing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Electromagnetic waves were supposed to be transported through space in a jelly-like medium called the ether. But the difficulty of constructing a coherent mathematical picture of the ether proved insuperable. Furthermore, the famed Michelson-Morley experiment showed fairly conclusively that the ether did not exist...
...Trade Treaty, in which Austria is mentioned on the list of most favored nations, the President said he had signed it, and that legally-if there was such a thing as international law-he had not at the time been officially informed by Austria that it had ceased to exist. No further comment, said the President, was necessary...
...Facto. News that Austria had ceased to exist as such was first officially presented to the State Department by Germany's Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff day after the Hitler coup. Three days later, Austria's popular Minister Edgar Prochnik called to announce that the functions of his legation-long the scene of some of Washington's nicest parties-had indeed been taken over lock, stock & barrel by the German Embassy...
...appallingly true, despite the fact that Government has dipped into the public purse to make possible the granting of huge subsidies to industry, agriculture, banking and finance. . . . Our national internal economy has attained the amazing condition where it appears that practically all of our major enterprises are unable to exist or function on their own resources. . . . America is moving in economic reverse...
Organist Biggs believes that the 18th-Century organs, few of which exist today, reached the same peak of perfection as the violins of Stradivarius, feels that organs made since, with their gadgets and kickshaws, have come a long way downhill...