Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coherent whole. Hudson stands, a hawklike, savage, difficult figure outlined in sweeping strokes against the background of a loveless marriage, drab boarding house surroundings, and fame that came too late for him 'to enjoy. His is the spirit of genius; he loved the windswept downs, the wild barren places, the creatures of the forest, the wayside inns far better than his own front parlor...
...Pisa in Northern Italy, Roald Amundsen is testing the two special machines built by the German designer Dormier. In a few days he will fly north by way of Zurich, through Germany and Norway to Spitzenbergen. Thence to the North Pole and Alaska. In the barren wastes of polar territory, a forced landing means almost certain death...
...national conservatory supported by Congress has been periodically advocated. But Mr. Eastman has actually created that which a barren Congress might never bring forth. It is to him and not to Congress that Mr. Coates dedicates his suite...
...Lakehurst, N. J. The directors of the Zeppelin company foresee success and little danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen's plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. "Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators...
...undergraduate mind. Instructors come, lecture for their allotted space, and then, so far as most of their students are concerned, completely disappear into the limbo of lost things and forgotten personalities, leaving little behind them but battalions of dead blue books and seeds of thought cast on barren ground...