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Word: barrenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the blackened stone houses lost in the darkness below, a single file of men tramped upward along a stony path. In sweet, mournful harmony they sang: "Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land. ..." For generations Welsh miners had gone to the pits singing the same hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Barren Land | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Labor's bill would not transform the barren land of British mining into a Utopia. Shafts would still be too narrow for modern machinery. Antiquated methods, deep tunnels, high accident rates would still plague the sick British industry. Bitter miners would continue slowdowns and flash strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Barren Land | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...younger son was killed in action. He is buried in a barren cemetery of crushed rock near a smelly city in a desolate region populated by filthy, godless people. He is the father of a son born after his death. If my son's body is brought back it will be placed in a beautiful plot to be visited as a shrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1946 | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Wreckingest | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...doors. It is not the sort of village in which people ordinarily run-its weathered shacks squat dismally in a muddy hill hollow amid slatternly fences, outhouses and discarded tires. The women and children straggled past the empty coalies on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur, and up a barren knoll to the tipple of the Belva Mine. Smoke and burned fragments of cardboard and paper were puffing hotly from the tunnel mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Jim Will Come Out Alive | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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