Word: barren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then, scientists have produced a spearmint with lemon flavor, bigger tomatoes, peaches, strawberries. Dr. Blakeslee began to be harassed by letters from bald men and barren women asking if his "miracle drug" would grow hair or insure fertility. These impertinences irritated him so much that several times he almost wrote a letter to the newspapers...
Campus. Ohio State's nondescript buildings, sprawling around a horseshoe-shaped campus, are barren of ivy and Gothic furbelows. But its undergraduates have some traditions, some fun. Ohio State's Orton Hall sounds the Westminster chimes each quarter-hour. Ohioans cheer lustily for their championship football, basketball, swimming teams. Their 60 fraternities, 20 sororities (enrolling a third of the student body, who can live in them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs...
...Bazaar. For this is the story of The Store and how it grew. If you want the dope on how to found a dynasty and how, once it is founded, to end it, this is the picture for you. J. Edward Bromberg is the only oasis in an otherwise barren cinema. The final scene of the father--Edward Ellis--dying with the blinking Bazaar sign in the background was more than a body could bear. We hobbled from the theatre in tears; it was a shame to see the Pardways go down the drain...