Word: inhabitability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boardinghouse play with the usual wild collection of types that inhabit such a hostelry. Into its midst comes a tawdry and mysterious pair (male and female) from Paris. In the current newspapers are stories of a horrible bluebeard who has murdered some two score wives. The gossip group of the boarding house identify their bearded visitor with the villain. He turns out to be simply a cheap crook on his way to his girl's sanctuary in her native...
...that although the enemy occupies a portion of our country and may, we suppose, advance and occupy other parts, all this does not detract from our faith, for we remain steadfast to our principles, even if only one mountain top may remain to us to occupy or to inhabit. We shall cause great loss to our enemies...
...more serious than the loss of the sons. There are always plenty of sons, but checks are ephemeral, and subject to seasonal influences. The autumn season, with its toll of games lost or won, profoundly affects the writing of checks. And checks build universities, while young men rarely inhabit them...
Pros and Cons. In China there are, according to various estimates, between 300 and 400 million people. By far the greater part of these are unaware of the events which are taking place in the outside world. But among the millions that inhabit the maritime and adjacent provinces or, conveniently, conscious China, it is otherwise. They have felt the effects of foreign domination and foreign exploitation of their resources, and they have resented the presence of aliens whom they believe to be in China solely for their own gain and whom they rightly or wrongly regard as intruders...
Later in the year the explorer went on a long trip in search of the famous, musk ox which inhabit the Polar region and feed on the frozen vegetation which grows in the bare spots of this country. He showed the first moving pictures ever taken of these rare animals, encircled by the Captain's Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young...