Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even sadder than the delays were some of Mr. Stimson's excuses. The Quartermaster Corps (which handles most Army construction) located a big camp in southern Iowa. Building was under way before the corps discovered what the Department of Agriculture must have known all the time: that the arid area did not have enough water to supply the camp. So the bumbling quartermasters had to start all over at Rolla, Mo., while Guardsmen who should have been transferred to the new camp languished in temporary quarters at Fort Francis E. Warren...
Only strategic reasons could justify wasting military effort, however small, on Greece. The country is rocky, arid, grows little food. Greece's occasional prosperity has been based on maritime trade, and with the bulk of Greek shipping chartered to Britain, Italy will not get that...
...seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they are all much alike. Capitalism . . . today commands a material type of religious fervor ... as unreasonable, dogmatic, and theoretical as any long established theology...
...death-belt consists of a few narrow valleys on the Western slope of the Andes from an elevation of 1000 to 2600 meters over an arid desolate and sparsely inhabited country. Nearly every one who spends a night here is affected a few days later with a severe anemia which often proves fatal. The red blood cell count may drop at the rate of a million...
...Grande, still looks much as it did when Coronado explored New Mexico 400 years ago this summer. Pictured in his prize-winning tempera are its crops (corn, wheat, melons, squash), irrigated then as now from the river; its Indians dancing, drumming, hoeing, baking, carrying water; its arid hills beyond. Only post-Coronado additions are a mission and school...