Word: subsist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...diverse occasions men have resorted to the food of the barns and fowl. Not to mention the immortal Nebuchadnezzar, late of Babylon-on-the-Euphrates, at the pinch of fashion or necessity even civilized man has been forced to follow the example of his less epicurean brother, and subsist on other than the staff of life...
...English Antarctic explorer, spoke before an enthusiastic audience in the Living Room of the Union yesterday afternoon and described one of the arduous experiences of his expedition. He said that on the party's return north, their provisions became exhausted and for two months they were compelled to subsist on a diet of dead pony. On the march they suffered terribly from dysentery and each man lost in weight an average of from 30 to 40 pounds...