Word: inhabitated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria (in Tanganyika Territory, which Premier Hertzog of the Union of South Africa fortnight ago suggested Great Britain should return to Germany's control...
...first time since 1913 the directory includes a geographical summary, which shows that of the 62,020 living alumni whose addresses are known, 58,933 inhabit the United States proper, 201 reside in its torritories and possessions, and 2,706 now live in 73 foreign countries...
What is of concern to us who inhabit the secluded sports of Cambridge is the fact that all possible objection of scheduling a game with the Joliet Zobras has now been removed. The millennium has arrived and the code of fair competition has now been instituted; when will a home and home agreement be arranged? It is possible that after the game members of the visiting teams might become confused and forget to leave, but exchange scholars are smiled upon in all universities. A little leavening with the loaf is not a bad idea, and a touch of Middle Western...
Like other Robinson narratives, Amaranth is a tale of moral issues. This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment...
...longer will the Black Muria screech around the corner of Brattle Street with its carloads of inebriates, no longer will the boys in blue climb the steps of the old red brick building on the corner, no longer will Colonel Apted's confreres inhabit Brattle square--gentlemen, pause in your labors to shed a tear for the vanishing past--the Brattle Street Police Station is shut...