Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strait there is too wide to be blocked and the barren island of Perim, whence pirates once took toll, although in British hands, does not control it so much as the nearby ports. Along the Red Sea's African Coast the Italians held Assab, Massaua and got Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden when France surrendered. The nearest British base was Aden across the Gulf...
This year, just a whip's crack from Westbury's famed old Meadow Brook Club, another hardy sport will bloom in September. On the site of the barren Roosevelt Raceway, into which four years ago a group of Eastern sportsmen sank $1,000,000 with the hope of bringing auto racing back to the East, another group of Eastern sportsmen has just sunk $100,000 to revive harness racing...
...Relatively barren of adjectives were business letters (19), private letters by inexperienced writers (22); abounding in adjectives were advertisements (78) and Ph. D. theses (88). Poetry struck a golden mean...
...Ages, the little (191 sq. mi.) country has been under the joint suzerainty of the French Government and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel since 1278, pays them a yearly tribute of about $86 in goats, sheep, cucumbers, other produce. Its 5,500 inhabitants scratch a hard living from the barren, upended land...
...more care to perfect a set than Victor. Rarely will you find, in their albums, the negligence that creeps into a Victor set, a break ill-timed in the middle of a movement, an orchestral entrance made before the sound-track starts, or exasperatingly, an entrance made late, several barren seconds during which you hear the needle scraping around the record. Mistakes like these spoil the continuity of a work, and can, if listened to repeatedly, become infuriating. However, until such time as Victor finds its sales lagging or its critics too loud to ignore, it will continue to neglect...