Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first clue came when we unearthed a barren-looking, square brick building, somewhat resembling a prison, which was attached to the large club-building previously mentioned. The only ornaments on the walls were ideographs representing the famous Inca sport of Rolo. From this we gathered that the building had been a dining-hall for athletes. In the kitchen were found the remains of elaborate ovens, and neatly tabulated parchment list of food. These menus showed that the service here was of the best, and that the food was fit for the palates of royalty. In fact it seems to have...
...present the Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with which many an actor sets on some quantity of the barren spectators to laugh...
...serious point I wish to make," the speaker concluded. "New England is not barren as a background for writing, and those of you who go to it will find the characters there examples of commonsense, Americanism, loyalty and a love of those principles on which America was founded...
...sometimes get the "snob" instead of the man we want; the true aristocrat. It is a word we shudder at these days; and yet, did not the Cambridge group of poets and thinkers form a genuinely creative aristocracy, functioning at a time when the rest of America was quite barren of thought...
...Office of the Dean as the chief point of contact between the undergraduate and the college organization, it is not surprising that most of us have hazy ideas about the administration of Harvard University. For the explanation of why an appeal to be removed from probation will tall on barren soil if addressed to the Board of Overseers and other such perplexing matters the following may be of interest...