Word: inhabitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back streets of Europe and Asia. ... It is all very well to talk about the brotherhood of man, sanctity of treaties, rights of minorities and the rule of law. . . . Let us realize that our power to deal with the world as it is and the realists who inhabit it is not unlimited...
This expedition, which is operating under the joint auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Harvard University, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has located implements made by what was the oldest human race to inhabit the tracts of southeastern Asia...
...Winchester went last year the superior general of the order, Very Rev. John B. Harney. He was not satisfied that his priests were getting out among the 175,000 people (375 of whom are Catholics) who inhabit their parish of 13 counties. Father Harney returned to Manhattan. A lay friend suggested that a trailer-chapel, such as many a minister now employs in rural districts, might be helpful. The friend supplied $5,200 for a trailer, which was specially built, named St. Lucy,- and turned over to two young priests, Rev. James F. Cunningham and Rev. Thomas M. Halloran...
Utopianizing, as every Wellsian knows, is H. G. Wells s crowning glory or besetting sin. In Star-Begotten his Utopian agents are extraterrestrial. The Martians know much more than Earth-dwellers but inhabit a nearly worn-out planet, have got to have greener pastures. Their attempt to Martianize the Earth at long distance is thus not wholly unselfish, but neither is it necessarily sinister. "This is a world where lots of us live upon terms of sentimental indulgence towards cats, dogs, monkeys, horses, cows, and suchlike inhuman creatures, help them in a myriad simple troubles, and attribute the most charming...
...India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935, et ante), was tested in its first trial-by-ballot last week. The voting was in what an ignoramus might call "only provincial elections" but several of the Indian provinces involved are each as large as Italy. Out of 350,000,000 people who inhabit India, some 35,000,000 cast the votes counted last week and of these about 6,000,000 were women. It was the claim of Mother Britain, voiced in her London Times, that as nearly as possible the new Constitution arranged that the ballots cast "represent the general mass...