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Word: inhabitant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lower Metacumbe. The section of the glades investigated was that opened by the new Tamiami Trail. The tree hummocks in this region are just like islands in an ocean, and rise in the midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during the rainy season in the summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Expedition Enters Wilds of Everglade Region--Clench Tells of Search for Valuable Specimens | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

Seeing her bow was strange. After her chameleon magic, it was hard to believe that she was real at all, that her own personality existed outside of the many personalities which it is her ability to inhabit. Under the control of an illusion still, you felt that maybe this was another imitation, that Ruth Draper was really; someone else inside of this small, alert, bowing actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...dancing and delicate wit inhabit Author Wassermann's mediaeval romancing to a far greater extent than his sombre psychological studies of modern Germany (Gold, Faber, Wedlock). Translator Otto P. Shinnerer puts no strings across the bright lawn of prose on which Author Wassermann's imagination whirls in a dexterous Bergamask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Child Witch | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...addition to these investigations, moving pictures of the birds and Breed Eskimos who inhabit tire region, will be taken. These will be shown in Cambridge and vicinity next fall and winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORNITHOLOGISTS WILL JOURNEY TO LABRADOR | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...Annie Besant, expositor of theosophy and its virtues, is so certain that the "world teacher" is soon coming to inhabit the body of her Hindu ward, Jiddu Krishnamurti, that she is taking the young man on tour. Last week they were in Paris. They are expected in the U. S. next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tour | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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