Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Alexander Came From. When it became clear that economic pressure would not dislodge Tito, the Cominform decided on a more drastic strategy. The new base of operations against Tito's Yugoslavia was to be Macedonia, the wild, barren stretch of country which is distinguished in history chiefly for sending Alexander the Great into the world...
...misshapen creature. Her father was so displeased that he sent her away to be raised by guardians in lonely seclusion. When she was eleven, he married her off to the 14-year-old Duke of Orleans, hinting that he intended thus to end the Orleans line with his ugly, barren daughter...
...erect, well-knit six-footer, Trippe, at 49, still packs the same weight (1961bs.) that he carried in college. He runs his global empire from a barren, middling-sized headquarters on the 58th floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There, he swivels between a clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring...
...Botanical Gardens are no more. A University-sponsored housing development will soon take their place, but until then only a bleak, blank space will great passers by at the corner of Linnean and Garden Streets. Above this barren area stands the Grey Herbarium, a Botanic Research center, the sole remaining part of the Cambridge landmark...
...development, which will provide new housing for 125 families, is scheduled for completion by the late spring of 1950. Financed by University endowment funds as an investment enterprise, the development comes after three years of pressure by the City of Cambridge asking the University to utilize the barren Botanical Garden grounds...