Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is a country of great natural resources, and that as yet it was practically undeveloped. Except along the courses of the rivers the country is a desert, but there are many recently discovered oil fields which are now being used by France and England. It is in this barren area that the Desert-Arabs, the remnants of the original inhabitants of the country, live. Wandering about the desert in tribes, they consider themselves the highest class socially of all the people of the country. They have an especially deep hatred for the City Arabs, and they make frequent raids...
...than ours, and that the world which the early poets looked at, and through which they walked, had a kind of poetical quality of its own, and almost without changing could pass into song. The snow lies, thick now upon Olympus, and its steeped scarped sides are bleak and barren, but once, we fancy, the white feet of the Muses brushed the dew from the anemones in the morning, and at evening came Apollo to sing to the shepherds in the vale. But in this we are merely lending to other ages what we desire, or think we desire...
There is another side to the question, however. Not that we would accuse the club of being falsely "high-brow." Not that we would for a moment go back to the old policy of barren repetition. Far from it. And yet it is not altogether unfitting that the chorus should occasionally unbend and give a few of the threadbare tunes still dear to the hearts of Harvard men everywhere. It does not smack unduly of small-town collegiate spirit to enjoy hearing the football songs and "Fair Harvard." The protests raised by the alumni in several western cities during...
...nothing to show for his time or reading and concentration, his mind merely becomes a sieve, a funnel where everything is poured in and passed out, and nothing retained. Like a field to which nothing is returned after the crop is harvested, so the mind becomes an empty barren place, productive of no vintage, a place despised of men. --PURDUE EXPONENT
...time of the class of 1920 dance the barren condition of the building forbade the use of the several upper rooms for boxes. Fortunately the comparatively small number of men already returned from service allowed the boxes to be arranged comfortably in the lower floor and upper hall. This season, however, the whole of the second floor is to be thrown open for the use of box-holders, and in this way the increased number of guests will more than be accomodated...