Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grown koala is some 2 ft. long, weighs about 12 lb. It spends its life in the branches of eucalyptus trees, eats only eucalyptus leaves and of these only twelve varieties. A koala fed leaves from any other of Australia's some 400 varieties of eucalyptus tree will die. The koala drinks nothing, tries to chew if given liquid. A few koalas have been imported by U. S. and European zoos. They promptly died...
...room log cabin near Senath, Mo., a white sharecropper named Jim Bridges sat waiting for his 35-year-old wife to bear their sixth child one gloomy afternoon last week. He hoped this one would not die as four of the others had. Old Dr. Fred Speidel and three neighbor women had come over to help Pearl Bridges through her time...
...suit. It would be an unforgiveable mistake on the part of President Roosevelt to meet this in any but an orderly way. Packing the court would establish a precedent that would permanently destroy the usefulness of the tribunal. Two alternatives are left; wait for the more conservative members to die, or amend the Constitution. If the President is willing to wait several years, the former method would be a smooth modus operandi. The more democratic and efficient method, however, is that of admendment. The overwhelming support given Mr. Roosevelt on Election Day augurs well for a speedy and cooperative ratification...
...stations in the U. S. an advertising slogan: "Buy at a gas station equipped to render first aid." Grisly though the thought is, fact remains that 1,285,000 people were injured in 863,300 motor accidents last year. Chances are that some of the 37,000 injured who die might be saved if gas stations, especially in isolated districts, were equipped to render aid until doctors and ambulances arrive or hospitals can be reached...
...Three then came forward out of darkness, one An old man bearded, his old eyes red with weeping, A peasant, with hard hands, "Come now," he said, And see the Road, for which our people die. Twelve miles of road we've made, a little only, Westward winding. Of human blood and stone We build; and in a thousand years will come Beyond the hills...