Word: leif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angered or frightened they leap to sexual activity. But monkeys at large relieve their emotion by running away or by other physical activity. This suggests that in monkeys, and probably in humans, sex is not the primal urge which Freudians make it out to be.?Dr. Otto Leif Tinklepaugh, Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station, Orange Park...
When asked about the view prevalent in Iceland on the discovery of America by Leif Ericson about the year 1000. Professor Nordal said that there was no doubt about the fact that Leif Ericson did reach the North American Continent, and that the general concensus of opinion in Iceland seems to be that he got as far South as Massachusetts in the course of his wanderings...
...stood for just five months less than 1,000 years pondered the Directors' plea. It was in June 930 that the Parliament, or Althing, was founded. In June 1930 two complete steamerloads of Icelandic-Americans will sail from Manhattan for Reykjavik, bearing a $50,000 goodwill statue of Leif Ericson, gift of the baby Congress at Washington, still in its teething* stage...
...Particularly infantile was debate in Washington over the statue last September. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota's first district introduced the appropriation bill with this ringing preamble: ."Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland Leif Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who in the year 1,000 A.D. discovered the American mainland...