Word: barrens
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Professor Roger's proposition is therefore most significant. It would afford a splendid source of education for many, while to others it would offer welcome relief from the nasal intonation of advertising blurbs. But if the suggestion is adopted, great care must be taken lest it, too, become barren of worth. Its operation should be placed in the hands of a non-political board; its benefits should not be confined to the small minority who possess short-wave receivers; and programs should be so arranged as not to become stereotyped and unpalatable...
...Franco-Italian rivalries focusing on the north coast of Africa. France's rich fertile Tunis is only 90 miles from the tip of Italy's island, Sardinia. There are more Italians living in French Tunis than in Italian Libya which is, for the most part, a barren useless land. The southern boundary of Libya has never been definitely fixed. France has avoided the question for years by insisting that since Italy could not control the territory she already held it was a waste of time to talk about boundaries in the Sahara. Marshal Badoglio has now made this...
...Dartmoor rises out of the wildest and most desolate stretch of land in all the British Isles. The original buildings were erected in 1809 to confine the French prisoners from the Emperor's army. Later some of the Americans in the war of 1812 found there way to its barren courtyard. At that time Dartmoor established a reputation for cruelty and discomfort which is now almost legendary in its fame. In 1850 the building assumed its present status of a convict prison. With true British love for tradition it has sturdily maintained its original character...
...chamber musicales which started last week required the philanthropy of Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the endowment she gave in 1925 to the Music Divi sion of the Library of Congress. The Rotl String Quartet from Budapest played the first program. Scheduled for the ten following Monday afternoons: The Barren Ensemble of Wind Instruments, the Salzedo Harp Ensemble, the Gordon String Quartet, the Compinsky Trio, the Musica Art String Quartet, the Elshuco Trio, the Kroll String Quartet, the London String Quartet, Soprano Nina Koshetz and String Quartet, Violinist Jacques Gordon anc Pianist Lee Pattison...
...lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop...