Word: barrens
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...need is for a living religion rather than a neutral one, and it is the opinion of many that the present chapel is expressive of a certain phase of barren and starved religiosity that was so prevalent in New England several, centuries ago but that has long since spent itself and has gone out of existence. I feel that the time has come to replace this cold lifeless illustration of a worn-out conception by a more appropriate, and a more beautiful, representation...
...barren State of Nevada was hard pressed last week to maintain its monopoly of the U. S. divorce market. Other States, covetous of the profits to be made out of divorce-hunting visitors, began liberalizing their divorce statutes to match the 90-day Nevada provision which made Reno a national byword...
...fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America's narrow end. the snow-swept islands stretching vaguely north from Canada's "barren lands," and the American Southwest's trackless deserts...
...Author. Ogden Nash, 29, was a Harvardman for one year, left to teach at St. George's School, Newport, then went to Manhattan to sell bonds, which he found hard to do. Onetime adman for Barren Collier, Doubleday Page, this month he joined the editorial staff of the New Yorker...
Died. John Lee Mahin, 61, advertising man, onetime vice president of Street Railways Co. and of Barren G. Collier, Inc., president of John Lee Mahin, Inc.; in Manhattan. Tobacco and liquor accounts he never handled, respecting his mother's wishes...