Word: lives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor to dramatize the Relief issue, Representative Keller of Illinois brought a display of WPA rations, a pitiably small pile of butter, prunes, etc., representing what one Reliefer gets in a week. He asked: "What would you do if you had to live on that...
Economy's Woodrum leaped to his feet. "If I had to live on rations like that," he retorted, "I would write my Congressman here . . . and plead with him to do everything in his power to see that the WPA used the money Congress appropriated for it for food, instead of throwing it away on a lot of foolishness...
...mean the independence of all States which may be threatened by aggression in pursuit of such a policy as I have described. We therefore welcome the cooperation of any country, whatever may be its internal system of government, not in aggression, but in resistance to aggression. . . . We cannot live forever in an atmosphere of surprise and alarm from which Europe has suffered in recent months. The common business of life cannot be carried on in a state of uncertainty...
...amphibians, and which was widespread and flourishing when the Age of Reptiles was just getting under way. The family has been considered extinct for 50,000,000 years because that is the most recent date assigned to any Coelacanth fossil found in the rocks. Thus the discovery of a live Coelacanth in the world of airplanes and television is as surprising, from an anatomical and evolutionary point of view, as would be that of a pterodactyl or diplodocus...
This week Manhattan's Downtown Gallery displayed Steig's latest humorous accomplishments: 14 small, irresistible figures carved in mahogany, walnut, orange, pear and apple wood. He began doing them three years ago when he married and moved out to live in the country in Sherman, Conn. He and his brother, Henry Anton Steig, pruned their fruit trees, stacked the dead wood in a shed. One day William picked up a chunk and whittled it. Thereafter all male carvings were known in the family as Jason, female carvings as Tessie...