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Word: lives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of the fence we find that all the New England states are in the insurgent camp. The New Englanders have not been disturbed by the controversy at Harvard, and students who live in these states, approximately one third of the total body, will get their home cooked turkey. All other students must be satisfied with House or Union gobblers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yankees' Stand Ruins Thanksgiving Program Of Third of Students | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...related to those intrepid pioneers which crawled up on land to become ancestors of reptiles, mammals and birds; also to the Coelacanths, which had fins like rudimentary limbs and which were thought by scientists to have been extinct for 50,000,000 years?until last year, when an astonishing live Coelacanth was brought up in a fishing net off the South African coast (TIME, April 3). The lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming to the surface periodically for air, they can live in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water; when the water disappears during dry spells, they can survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Champion Laggard | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...plant valued at $2,500,000. He would have seen the grey-coated cadets marching in review before General George Catlett Marshall, first V. M. I. alumnus to be chosen Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army. He would have heard a Northern President exhorting the students to "live up to your great heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Absentee | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...editors that they publish no divorce actions, no slander suits, no suicides. Some years ago a member of the Argentine Cabinet killed himself, explaining in a note that because of political opposition he could no longer do what was best for the nation, no longer cared to live. Next day La Prensa simply said that he had "died suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...what that is like? The hunger, it does not leave me. Whatever I do, wherever I go, it is like something I cannot take off. To me the cooking and eating are arts as great as music-maybe greater. One more week I shall go on. Then I will live again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Little Garlic | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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