Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill on principle, but observers agreed that if it could be brought to vote, Joe Robinson had lined up enough votes to pass it. First test of strength is expected when opponents try to refer the new bill to the Judiciary Committee where it would doubtless die. Second test of strength may come several weeks later when, after long but genuine debate, opponents may filibuster to prevent a vote...
...temperature, illumination, emotion. In summer the chameleon can be given the run of a screened porch, but in winter it needs a cage with plenty of sunlight shining through glass netting or fine screen. Chameleons can drink only by lapping up drops of water sprinkled on plants; hence many die of thirst even with a pan of water in their cages...
...Princess, and possibly the first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf verheugende-gezond-heidsredenen geweest, die u zeker wilt verstaan en billijken." ("Nothing would ever have kept me from enjoying every detail of the festive program with which you have welcomed us to Amsterdam had it not been for reasons of my health-in themselves joyful-which you certainly will understand and make allowances...
Opposition to the teaching of evolution in U. S. schools did not die out-or even languish-after the death of the most celebrated anti-evolutionist. Teacher Scopes was fined $100 (later remitted) and left Tennessee;* The Tennessee anti-evolution law still stands. Restrictive laws are also on the statute books of Mississippi an Arkansas. Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution, one of the ablest biologists in the U. S., charges that there is even more pussyfooting in present-day textbooks than there was three decades...
...their jurisdictions. And the ancient feudal doctrine of Escheat or accidental reverting of lands to the original lord has been applied in modern law not only to lands but to personal property, unclaimed savings deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed in the Dauphin County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest...