Word: inhabitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yakuts, who inhabit the region bordering on the Lina River, are a tribe whose origin is unknown. They have lived in this vicinity for many centuries, and their primitive civilization and customs differ entirely from most of the other tribes in that neighborhood...
...marine life has been found in water drawn from some of these wells-small crabs, fish and shellfish. They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that the whole of North Africa is underlain by a subterranean sea, 300 feet beneath the surface, connected by passageways with bodies of water beyond Suez...
America's scientific elite, gathered at Cincinnati for the 75th anniversary meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, heard and saw fresh miracles of the heavens and earth and the creatures that inhabit them...
...bathroom and plumbing fixtures, heating system, electric elevators, completely appointed wardrobes, golf clubs, guns and foils-everything necessary to royal existence-are there. All is English-made and in the best English taste. A complete royal family of six-inch dolls, representative guest and a corps of servants will inhabit the palace. The walls can be raised and lowered. In January the doll's house will be publicly exhibited for a fee, and the proceeds will go to the Queen's charities. It will find a permanent home in Windsor Castle...
These plangent protests seem ill considered. It is probable that any parents who are so shiftless as to stand by while their children posture and grimace at the command of bull-throated directors would stand by anyway. In such a case the children would inhabit some top floor garret, subsist on cheese and warmed-over coffee. They would have the questionable advantage of consorting with other gutter children. They would grow up into third-rate mechanics? kitchen or gasoline, according...