Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tribal funds held in trust the Government spent 93% on "administrative costs." Every stratagem was worked to acquire for white use key lands along watercourses without which the surrounding territory was useless. In 1887 Indians held 139,000,000 acres, in 1933 47,000,000, much of it arid. Rural slums grew (and persist) near the agencies, where Government rations float the Indians just above starvation. As for the rich "oil royalty" Indians (Tixier's Osages) they amount to less than "one per cent of a people thousands of whom would look upon a hundred dollars a year...
...making One Million B. C. Directors Hal Roach & Hal Roach Jr. have thrown science to the winds that howl through arid Fire Valley, Nev. where most of the thriller was filmed. They rely for red-blooded entertainment on such spectacles as a giant lizard devouring a man, a tapir-like monster ingesting a python, a battle royal between two dinosaurs...
...last few years, the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs has built more than 40 Navajo schools, sent out about 150 young women teachers. To drum up business, the teachers invited squaws to their schoolhouses for hair-washing parties (the schools have pumps, a luxury in the arid Navajo country), then persuaded them to send their children. Communication was difficult, for the teachers knew no Navajo, their pupils no English...
...Park College in Parkville, Mo., has been practicing her French by writing letters as a marraine (godmother) to one Gilbert La Planche, 18, French aviator now in active service near the Maginot Line. Allowed to choose the name of their squadron, Gilbert's mates took his suggestion arid the name "Escadrilie Virginia." Virginia had her picture taken knitting a sweater for her gallant, unseen Gilbert...
Such is the general reaction. Liberals are rightly indignant that the Union should have so knuckled under to its self-seeking, intellectually arid minority. By refusing on grounds of "strict neutrality" to censure Russian aggression, an organization which was not afraid to support a boycott of Japan and which gave its approval to strong condemnations of German and Italian aggression, has now acquiesced in Hitlerism when practiced by the Kremlin. Under such circumstances, the only self-respecting action for the Harvard chapter, which fought the Communist dictation of policy, would appear to be resignation. There may, however, be an alternative...