Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing grim and invincible, the Wigglesworth gate has long been the nemesis of late returning Yardlings. Deaf to their most suppliant pleas, the truculent barrier has continually forced weary revelers to make a long trek through the barren Cambridge wastes to other, more understanding entries to the Yard. Numerous petitions from the Humane Society of Footsore Freshmen, interviews with expensive psychiatrists, and the sight of tiny Yardling bodies freezing in the snow before the merciless gate have all failed to unlock the snaggle-toothed jaws of Wigglesworth...
From the U.S.: James B. (for Barren) Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the Congress for Industrial Organizations. Slim, 35-year-old Jim Carey is one of U.S. labor's ablest men, a scrappy advocate of labor's responsibility (in all countries) in shaping policies for peace. He was labor's representative on several wartime Government boards and is one of its most experienced men in its international fields. He represented the C.I.O. at the London and Paris conferences which set up the World Federation of Trade Unions, was a consultant at the United Nations conference at San Francisco...
...Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson) was in no great hurry to cross the Atlantic after its London production (TIME, May 10, 1943). Now it is here, only Noel Coward addicts need be in a hurry to see it. Barring a few funny lines, it is pretty barren folderol about the life, loves and self-appreciation of a British matinee idol...
...Canada's barren backlots is a small area where the compass needle, properly suspended, points directly downward. This phenomenon does not usually terrify observers: they know that they are standing on the north magnetic pole, the umbilicus of the earth's magnetic field. When the magnetic pole changes its location, as it does, the needles of all the world's compasses shift a little...
...time chosen by Koestler is 1937-39, a tense period when many Jews turned from the conference table to armed terrorism. Koestler tells the story of a typical Jewish commune and the 25 pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through...