Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present, in which, of course one is most interested. If it be assumed that all others belong in the "ex-street car men" category, and that the few prominent examples are without less conspicuous but able and honest counterparts then perhaps the journalistic world is really as barren as we are asked to believe. Perhaps it holds no opportunities for the man of moderate ability. But this does not seem to be fully demonstrated...
...which should last them for some time. All the accumulated talent of Harvard and much of the purest cream of the professional stage, under the leadership of a recent graduate of Yale, will carry the gospel of the theatre from under the shadow of the Sacred Codfish to the barren hinterland of Maine and New Hampshire...
...course be nothing but one of the whims which from time to time disturb the peace of mind of royalty. Yet from the fact that he has frequently found it necessary to motor as far as Berlin in order to have his teeth attended, although Brealau cannot be wholly barren of dentists, he may be suspected of cloaking the usual ambition of dispossessed princes beneath his present agricultural activities...
Flying over the barren waste of the Alaska Peninsula, surrounded by a heavy fog that blotted out the desolate, treeless, uninhabited shores below, two aviators, speeding westward, crashed against a mountain side. Miraculously uninjured, they picked themselves from the wreck of their plane and started on a search for life, warmth, food. For seven days they labored across that rough, uneven country. At the end of a week they came to a trapper's cabin on the southern tip of Port Moller Bay, nearly at the end of the peninsula. From this haven they flashed back word that they...
...cannot drive a gasoline engine with lubricating oil alone, and one cannot drive it well without a lubricating oil. It is the same with History. One cannot write a history consisting only of anecdotes and sidelights, but a history without these is barren, inadequate, unpalatable. So it is not a history that David S. Barry, onetime Senate page, longtime newspaper correspondent, and more recently Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, has written in his memoirs of four decades at the Capitol. He has furnished one of the lubricants of history...