Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intrepid scientists will not live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, Doran), a dictionary (Merriam...
...wife of a man who made 80 millionaires and who now manages the Brown Derby. She is also a farmer. Several years ago in her native Queen Anne's County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising has been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more...
Senator Barkley asked about Hooverism's relations with Will Hays and other suspicious public characters. The answers being barren, he asked if Candidate Hoover was not a man "of considerable means...
...problems on which the Freshman would rather consult a student than a faculty adviser. For this reason alone it would be unwise in abolish entirely the present advisory system. But the system does need considerable simplification. If all the machinery of visits, reports, letters, and blanks which has proved barren of practical results were abolished, and the entire efforts of the committee devoted to providing readily available advice for Freshmen who really want it the efficacy of the system would be greatly increased. The simplification of the advisory committee functions would also make fewer advisers necessary, and thus raise...
...following year was more or less of a transitional period for the University track team and while its results were barren in the way of victories, the foundation for great teams was being laid. On December 1, 1923, nearly 100 track men crowded the Varsity Club to hear W. J. Bingham '16 make his last speech as head track coach. "In the last two years," he said, "we have learned many things--first and foremost, that in order to assure the success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking...