Word: barrens
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...solely with himself and time In either case he has offered a mental aspirin. In the so-called masses in the form of the proverbial ship on their horizon, which horizon had been up until his initial "Share-the-Wealth" speech. bare of any indication of rescue from the barren beach of want and suffering...
...Martha Ijams, a spinster alumna of the University of California, had refused to carry on as hostess of a Charter Day alumni banquet because Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was No. i Charter Day speaker.*"I do not believe," Miss Ijams had sniffed, "that the world is so barren of persons warranting recognition that it should be necessary for the university to delve into politics to find someone worthy to receive the honor of being chosen Charter Day speaker. It seems to me entirely out of place that the first woman so recognized should be a mere politician...
...month before President Garfield died of an assassin's shot in September 1881, a party of U. S. soldiers under a young lieutenant, up from Civil War ranks, arrived at Lady Franklin Bay on barren Ellesmere Island, some 600 mi. from the North Pole. This Army detachment's job was to set up one of an international chain of circumpolar stations for scientific observation. For two years the party collected data and specimens, sent out exploring expeditions of which one set a new "farthest North" by getting within 450 mi. of the Pole. A relief ship which...
...recently as 1821 Greece was a servile Turkish province. It was largely with Russian backing that a few Greek Christians won freedom for the barren lower tip of the Greek peninsula. For the rest of the 19th Century the Greeks acquired a shameful record of defeat in battle. They acquired more territory only through the benevolence of the Great Powers, chiefly Britain. Then green currants from the Ionian Islands were the main economic support of the dismal little nation...
...change in spirit so marked that no Washington observer could miss it. The general morale of the Administration seemed at a new Roosevelt low. The country had almost forgotten the sound of the President's voice on the radio. For days at a time the front pages were barren of any real White House news. Congress, still out of the President's control, was loafing along to suit itself. Practically nothing of the President's major 1935 legislative program had yet been blasted out of committee. Inside the Administration jealousy was rampant among the President...