Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kuzbas Colony, some 2,000 mi. east of Moscow when young Spring came to their feet) they returned to Manhattan bearing only a gift towel. They care absolutely nothing for property. Said Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell: "Once when we slept in a natural hole in the side of a barren hill we were awakened at dawn by the fixed stares of about a dozen wild horses peering intently at us over the top. . . . We weren't in trim. We never keep in trim. We eat all the wrong things. I've gained 16 pounds this winter...
...hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year a U. S. horse has been installed...
Modern literature courses are rarities on the curriculum of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. During 1928-29 the omission of courses such as English 26 and English 16 has left the catalogue barren indeed for the student searching a course in contemporary poetry or prose. At least one regular course covering the twentieth century literary field and its tendencies would undoubtedly find a sufficient patronage to warrant...
...give flying passengers convenience New York City authorities have commissioned Clarence D. Chamberlin to lay out a field on Barren Island in New York Harbor. Last week Barren Island was so far prepared that the Curtiss flying service made arrangements to move its headquarters ters there from famed Curtiss Field...
...most marvelous combination of mountains and barren peaks, of glaciers, of rushing rivers, of wonderful cataracts ... the most lovely forests ... a beautiful group of cedar trees . . . wild flowers in the utmost profusion and startling beauty...