Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert, through the mountains, came at last into the thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
...ruthless storm troopers' actions which now aren't quite so funny. As a whole the picture is a spotty job. In some scenes, such as the bubble dance with a world globe, Charlie exceeds even his greatest performances in the past. But these scenes are separated by long, arid stretches of not-very-funny political continuity. It is a show that no one should miss, but that no one should expect to enjoy entirely...
...exactly solved the ills of the world and decided to adopt a mass what-the-hell-let's-read-a-novel-and-forget-it attitude. But that's a pessimistic view. Let's think of it as a wave of culture sweeping into the Yard and driving the arid Social Sciences before it. It may well be that a new and inspired race of authors, playwrights, and poets has entered the College and that twenty-nine years from now 117 J. P. Marquands of the Class of '44 will inform us what a desolate and uninspiring spot Harvard really...
...Spanish colony, newsmen found conditions only a degree better than a concentration camp: 120 people without adequate tools, medical supplies, clothing or food trying courageously to coax a living from 20 arid acres, four milkless cows, a few pigs and chickens. A political fight has frozen the funds supposed to support the colony, which sinks deeper in debt every time it buys the meagre rations of coffee, rice and beans it lives on. Only bright spot was the morale and spirit of the colonists themselves who, ridden with anemia and malaria, work desperately hard, hold classes for natives...
...endless, grab-bag complexity of Interior's duties-understandable. Interior sells electricity, protects the Indians, manages forests, preserves historic buildings, sets minimum soft-coal prices, interferes in the government of Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, rules Western cattle ranges, settles irrigated areas in semi-arid regions, watches over wild life and fish. All these sprawling activities are linked by a central theme: conservation of natural resources...