Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chandler Parsons Anderson Jr., 27, onetime secretary to Ambassador Houghton, son of Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...
...candidates for the University crew, and adds that they "have been pulling seven hundred and fifty strokes and running two miles daily." This would seem to be pretty strenuous work for candidates for a crew during their period of training, but the CRIMSON puts the candidates through the arid bath of journalistic criticism. One can scarcely imagine the CRIMSON of today, or any college paper, getting away with this little resume of candidates...
...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...
...fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully gathered data, perhaps arid enough, which immediately catches the fancy of both critics and public, and which is at once informative and a best seller. Such a book is Professor John Livingston Lowes' "The Road to Xanadu...
...most profitable year-net income $67,567,958 from total railway operating revenues of $766,989,363. The system operates 4.9% of the total miles of road and 7.05% of the total miles of track in the U. S., yet last year handled 10.92% of all the freight traffic arid 17.91% of all the passenger traffic. It carried the equivalent of one ton of freight 49 billion miles (264 round trips between earth and sun) and one passenger 6 1/2 billion miles (35 round trips between earth and sun). This year the "Pennsy" is making an exceptionally strong campaign...