Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite, but whose appetite and taste, happily enough, may be assuaged and satisfied by a nibble at a desert cactus, and he then is ready for another long and arid journey...
What is it that has arrested America's development, that has stunted her spiritual and intellectual existence? Mr. Brooks finds the answer in the early colonial life from whence emerged both our philosophy of attainment or acquisition, and our tradition of arid spirituality. These two separate forces have worked an awful leaven in our civilization; they have produced a singular dichotomy in our national personality. Thus we have "highbrows" and "lowbrows," the former devoting themselves to a sterile, abstract kind of spirituality which has no roots in the reality of our life, and the latter running out their years...
...wants, but in Education, not Government. Down, cried the Commission, with pedagogy and its vast jerry-built structure of normal schools, teachers' colleges, Schools and Departments of Education. "The Commission proposes in the field of teacher training: (a) a drastic curtailment in the number of courses-often thin, arid and duplicating-offered in the principles and methods of education; (b) an insistence that persons engaged in training teachers in various branches of learning shall, first of all, be competent scholars in these fields; (c) the abandonment of the conception of a distinct 'science of education...
...Earth Turns (Warner). This semirealistic story of farm life, adapted from Gladys Hasty Carroll's novel, shows New England apple snatchers scratching at their arid meadows, bravely but without much recompense. One full year with the Shaw family and their neighbors makes rural life seem as lively as a cycle on Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love...
...fourth defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was convicted and beheaded.) In haste and secrecy the three were hustled to a plane at Berlin's Tempelhof Field. In two long hops they were out of Nazi Germany and Göring's reach and into Communist Moscow arid the midst of a cheering mob, speechmaking officials and holiday rockets...