Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere on southeastern Hudson Bay fortnight ago solid ice or snow-drifted muskeg echoed back the hammering exhaust of a ski-shod plane flying north. Aboard were an inspector and a corporal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a doctor, a radioman, a pilot. They were headed for a barren mass of stone low on the surface of the Bay, the Belcher Islands. The reason for their flight was murder...
...gentlewoman as well as a genius in an era unfavorable to either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused even darker suspicions among U.S. readers. They have suspected that she is dull or highbrow, and have translated their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without reading They Stooped to Folly, consider her a too stern daughter of the voice of God. Others who have read The Romantic Comedians, but not Vein of Iron, consider her a light-minded iconoclast from whose irony nothing is safe...
...American Academy of Arts and Letters elected Novelist Glasgow to membership. But the Pulitzer Prize committee still has not recognized her existence. She had the misfortune to publish Barren Ground the same year that Sinclair Lewis published Arrowsmith which won the prize. In the next nine years the Pulitzer committee passed over three of her best books in favor of Bromfield's Early Autumn, La Farge's Laughing Boy, Stribling's The Store. Novelist Glasgow went right on writing, revising, perfecting the series of novels which she had projected at the beginning of the Century - "a social...
Last month a small British naval force appeared off the barren, waterless, craggy, four-square-mile Italian rock of Castellorizo, near the Dodecanese Islands-two miles off the Turkish coast and 60 miles from Rhodes (where the Germans were this week reported to have sent Stuka dive-bombers). After brief opposition, the British forced a landing and took the islet...
Down Goes Paul. If Hitler attacked Greece only from Bulgaria, through the Struma River Valley, he would undoubtedly find it hard going. The frontier is only 25 miles wide, the terrain is barren, forbidding, and 90,000 or more Greeks could put up stiff resistance against the heaviest odds. But if the Nazis also attacked through Yugoslavia's Vardar River Valley, west of the Struma. leading directly to Salonika, they could strike the Struma's defenders from the rear and probably crush any forces that Greece would be able to muster...