Word: barrens
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...tour of the Western Hemisphere to lecture. Mme Piccard, grumping bitterly over the interruption of her home life, and two of their five children accompanied him to Paris, through the gritty tunnels of Normandy to bleak Le Havre, waved forlornly as a big liner carried their hero down the barren harbor toward the vast Atlantic. Last they saw of him was his long arms gyrating, the wind blowing his wild hair crazily...
...causes of the Depression may be manifold but War Debts and reparations have been a major cause and a settlement is an indispensable condition of a revival of general prosperity. . . . Reparations and war debts represent expenditure on destruction. Fertile fields were rendered barren and populous cities a shattered ruin. Like the shells on which they were largely spent these loans were blown to pieces. [Their] repayment necessitates unnatural transfers which provoke widespread economic evil...
HUXLEY (Aldous) Those Barren Leaves...
...this dilemma the CRIMSON, with becoming modesty, wishes to offer a brief proposal, which will solve two problems at a blow. Let Great Britain, in return for a reduction in her debt to this country, cede one of those barren islands in the North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...
...their nose-stinging structure. On Dr. Norris' mind was an order from Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee-who, to spare taxes and borrow money from bankers, is trying to cut city operating costs-to reduce his department budget by 20%. Before Dr. Norris' eyes was the barren poverty of his morgue office-a small room, cheap furniture, a microscope, reagent bottles. The floor is bare. But in an adjacent laboratory is a dingy blue rug, once blood-stained evidence in a murder case...