Word: existing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Soviet law no longer countenances savage acts. Father Walsh further agreed that most of the Soviet atrocities and murders of priests described in his pamphlet (nearly all without dates) occurred prior to 1923, and some as early as 1919, when the present Soviet Government as now organized did not exist. In a word, the Walsh pamphlet is another presentation of the same out-of-date stories against which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald recently warned (TIME, March 10), urging Englishmen to demand fresh not vintage news from Russia...
...choose to drink are able to do so and can obtain what they desire to drink with little or no difficulty. And this is not merely the case in the college community. Beer is as plentiful in South Boston as more expensive liquor in the speakeasies that exist in quantities about the throbbing life of Times Square. The idea that men cannot obtain drinks in those places where there is a real demand for liquor is ridiculous. The workman can and does drink. He may prefer to make his own home brew, but if he does not there is ample...
...such a question, the college undergraduate would reply that mathematics still exist and that the sciences have partially taken the place of the classics. It is true, however, that specialization in college is often attempted without a sure foundation in the ancient fundamentals. In directing his criticism against the type of faddism that allows each preparatory school student to choose the subjects that he likes, Mr. Taft touches a sensitive spot in modern education...
...here put forth a vigorous polemic against the present apparatus of cinema censorship. Say they: though the National Board of Review does not officially censor, merely "suggests" changes, recommends certain cinemas, withholds recom- mendation from others, in practice it amounts to a federal censorship board. Official state censorship boards exist in six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Virginia, Ohio; the Pennsylvania board is the most severe, the Virginia most lenient...
...second conclusion would be that the moral leadership of the United States, if such conditions exist in the universities, has definitely passed from the big schools...