Word: habitat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jumblies' habitat are detective stories about human beings. Writers of detectifiction are not usually able characterizers, and vice versa; it is too hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...
...have seen a specimen of Willoughby's ragfish. Few would care to. It looks crushed and anemic, has few bones. Ichthyologists think it may belong to a family of specialized and degenerate percoids (perch, sunfish). Only six have been taken from their habitat, the deep Pacific waters off the North American coast. Seattle residents and visitors may now see a Willoughby's ragfish in an aquarium unique in the U. S., if not in the world. George Yaeger is the Scandinavian manager of the Port of Seattle's Frozen Fish Department. No scientist, he is an oldtime...
...fourth moth invasion. Previous ones: 1862,1908, 1909. The Times, quoting from its own contemporary account, said: "On July 16, 1908, the insects descended upon an amazed city, frightening dowagers and amazing infants. ... A 3-year-old boy became excited and fell from a window to his death. . . . Their habitat straightway became coatsleeves, hair, beards, wilting collars, brightly lighted hotels and soups and salads of French phraseology and price...
...assure you that the penguin, even in its natural habitat, is not a wild bird. On the contrary, it is the most solemn member of the avian family. It goes about its business in a grave manner, its coloring is reminiscent of formal evening attire, and you may take it upon the authority of M. Anatole France that its social habits are in many instances superior to those of its well known relative, homo sapiens...
Lending the pictures would be beneficial to the Museum as well as to the students. The illusion that the Fogg Museum should be the isolated habitat of the Fine Arts Department should be destroyed by bringing that institution more into contact with the University at large. As those responsible sincerely desire to spread knowledge and appreciation of art, they should push this plan to the utmost. By shortsightedly dropping the project, Fogg Museum may justly be charged with doing Harvard a disservice which can be rectified only by the renewal of the offer to loan the pictures...