Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live lungfish from the central take region of East Africa have been purchased by the directors and placed on exhibition for students, it was disclosed recently by Arthur Loveridge, curator of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
These rare, eel-like creatures which have no fins but possess two pairs of fleshy spines were brought over in their cocoons of hard baked mud in which they live during the dry season, often for as long as two years. Only nine inches now, some day these baby specimen may reach the length of five feet...
...live up to Nicholas Murray Butler's requirement that education should be the "gradual adjustment to the spiritual possession of the race, with a view to realizing one's own potentialities and assisting in carrying forward that complex of ideas, acts and institutions which we call civilization," Princeton must instill in us that habit of intellectual growth, in order to improve "the big American disappointment" the man educated in the university. --The Princetonian
...Dema Dunlap to Dr. Kosterlitz, who refused to believe the young woman's story until he saw the projecting butt of the spike. He rushed her to a hospital where he extracted the nail. Then she fainted. There was some chance for her recovery, for a person can live with a large part of his brain gone. In Harvard's anatomical museum is the skull of a man who lived for many years after an explosion drove a crowbar clear through his head. In Louisville lives a woman who had the front lobes of her brain removed...
...lack of understanding shown by partisans on both sides. Yet the question is as pertinent and as closely related to any individual as the memorandum on his office desk or the test tube in his laboratory. The new plan attempts to give the student not only the ability to live in the past to some extent, but also better equipment to think and act in the present because of a larger perspective...