Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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States' rights, "public plunderers," "special privileges," trusts which "despoil the people." The "majesty and security of the U. S." was mentioned. Prohibition was sideswiped with a reference to "snoopers and spies." Plans were advocated "to control and conserve our great inland waters, harness their power, develop the arid lands of the West, protect the great Valley States from inundation and place upon our mighty rivers and lakes argosies which will bear an immense commerce...
...There are few great agricultural regions and none comparable to the great interior plains of the United States and Canada. Much of the vast expanse of territory consists of rugged mountains; other large areas are arid; great stretches are subject to destructive floods. In the regions which are fertile, the population is huddled together...
...musical show, good or bad, to leave town. The name of Jack Donahue would cause a riot where Modjeska and the Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted gratefully; certainly there is an absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime it is not necessary wholly to damn the merry-merry, which is, to some, a bone...
...rode a large group of skulking bandits with an eye to robbery and a will to violence. Madly they raced along with the swaying train, their horses' hoofs beating a drum rumble on the arid land. Half a hundred shots screamed through the air and clattered against the sides of the cars, some of them piercing the woodwork and windows. But all in vain; booty was denied them...
...scheduled for this summer, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, left Washington last week for Mount Wilson, Calif, (near Los Angeles), to pursue what has been his special study for many years, the heat of stars. Dr. Abbot has climbed the world's most arid mountains to study the sun's heat. Subordinates of his are at present sitting in an extinct South African crater continuing this work, an immediate purpose of which is to facilitate long-range weather prediction. But far more difficult to measure than the sun's heat...