Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life, like his hero's, has been hard. Says he: "I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless. . . . The only good book, in my opinion, is an honest book, and no book, I am sure, can be honest and wholly...
...that of Arabic science which was magic, since the Arabs, like us, have the application of science to the exigencies of life for our goal--in other words, power over nature. Roger Bacon, as Mr. Dawson says, "seems at first sight"--so he appeared to the Elizabethan dramatist--"to belong entirely to the Arabic scientific tradition," for since he was aware of the possible misuse of science, "like the Arabs he believed that science was power and that the scientist was a wonder worker and a magician...
...economic activities of other British trade unionists. Last week 3,847 members of the Medical Practitioners Union decided to take the final step. They joined the British Trades Union Congress, equivalent of the American Federation of Labor. With the Union Practitioners went the dozens of health officials who belong to the National Union of County Officers. It was as if the American Public Health Association and the Conference of State & Provincial Health Authorities of North America had unionized all their members...
...such news reports from that moment belong to the public, including the defendant [KVOS] and all others who may desire to use them . . . except for sale by a rival news agency. . . . The mere fact that the defendant disseminates gratuitously those news reports as a part of its radio service . . . does not involve the pirating by one newsgathering and distributing agency of news reports of another such agency, as in the case...
...Galapagos (literally Great Tortoise and pronounced Galapagos) Islands lie on the Equator about 500 miles due west of Ecuador to which country they belong. Seventeenth Century pirates knew them well. Charles Darwin visited them in his famed voyage of the Beagle. Ever since they have been a special delight for scientists, nature fakirs and wanderlustful millionaires. Within recent years such celebrities as William Beebe, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore, Gifford Pinchot, William K. Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor have visited the islands...