Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elevator operator walked out with the warehousemen. Around Gimbel's, Strawbridge & Clothier's, Lit's, N. Snellenburg's and Frank & Seder's marched mass picket lines with placards demanding more pay, better working conditions, union recognition. Read one placard: "Salesgirls on strike. Could you live on $12 a week...
Consider, said Dr. Gregory, the horse. The legs are like towers at each end of a bridge, the backbone is an arched cantilever system suspended from the towers, the chest and abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like a derrick (the neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs...
Without the services of the University Press Harvard would be a far more agreeable if less stimulating place in which to live. There would still be trimly done menus promising with the same mystifying terminology great delicacies to come...
...people who can afford not only to buy neat Georgian houses set in landscaped parks but also to commute between them and the metropolis. We say "almost exclusively" because of one section which is called "the Valley" and deserves the name for social as well as geographical considerations. Here live the negro families, as well as the nouveaux arrives: Italians, Poles, Greeks: forming an untouchable world apart but a convenient object for the charitable inclinations of the towns-women...
...went on puffing at one of the reporter's cigarettes, "I love dancing and I live for it, although I'm not a 'night club girl.' I'm really an 'outdoor girl,' terribly fond of horseback riding and swimming. I thoroughly dislike New York with all its noise and excitement. Great Neck on Long Island, where I own a home is where I enjoy staying...