Word: barren
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from this barren, rocky isle, my life...
...date it always remains fondly vivid at annuals." We wish that words could induce the Courant to wrap itself in the mantle of its advertising pages; for the popular prejudice favors a cover on a college paper. For seven columns the inside pages of the paper present a barren waste of words unrelieved by a single paragraphic oasis...
...barren trees make ready for the spring...
Such landmarks are gradually disappearing, and each steals from us, as it goes, its fund of interest and association. We trust, the "Old Powder-House" may not meet the common fate, on its windy perch, surrounded by barren acres of stunted pasture, beyond whose limit civilization seems unwilling to trespass; it has preserved an atmosphere of its own; wind and storm have played their pranks with its aged walls for many a year, but it has stood them bravely. Let us hope that its fortunes escape the devastating hand of improvement and survive to see an age when...
...present it is sufficient to remark that the common notion that America was once a populous and powerful country, but that in the twentieth century there commenced a reduction of temperature and a southward movement of ice from the northern coast, which finally brought the land to its present barren state, is essentially correct. This article is confined to Harvard, for from documents it appears that this was the name of the place, and not Arvart, as tradition...