Word: subsists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months deliberation that Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson, Arctic explorers, had not harmed themselves by living on an all-meat diet for one year and ten days. Said the physicians: "In general, white men, after they have become accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate without damage to health or efficiency." Said Meat-Eater Stefansson: "I am wide awake and am more aggressive in my work than I was before I started this test. . . . They [the vegetarians] are like religious fa natics. Eating vegetables and fruits...
...many of the students in College subsist either upon monthly allowances or some form of dividend, and as most of these are received upon the first of every month, they arrive just too late to be of service in settling the problem of the term bill. It is therefore suggested that it would be a great convenience to a good many undergraduates if the authorities in Lehman Hall could afford to extend the limit on term bills for a day or two past the first of the month...