Word: barrens
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...Christmas Day, because he did "not believe in Christmas relaxation, in war"; used "atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles prove their ability to subordinate matter to mind. Intellectual discipline had triumphed...
...many another industry, time was when Nature had a monopoly on nitrates, which meant that Chile had a monopoly. For practically all the world's natural nitrate comes from a certain desolate plateau high up in the Andes in northern Chile, a 450-mi. stretch utterly barren of water and vegetation.* But since the War, synthetic nitrogen has been steadily rolling up tonnage, while Chilean nitrate has remained almost stationary. Thus, in the "Fertilizer Year" (which begins June 1) of 1927-1928, synthetic production of pure nitrogen was 1,267,000 metric tons, Chilean 390,300. Chemically, Chilean nitrate...
...will build a great natural resource . . . make new geography . . . start a new era ... conquer the Great American Desert. To bring about this transformation requires a dam higher than any the engineer has hitherto conceived or attempted to build." Secretary Wilbur warned against a great rush of workmen to the barren dam site where their services are not yet needed...
...after arriving at the Pribilofs, each gives birth to a pup. Two weeks later the cow seals desert their progeny, returning at ever-lengthening periods to feed them, investigate their growth, teach them how to swim. Their rookeries are situated along the shore or a little inland among the barren rocks...
...than similar crops of wheat or corn. The cost of McKee poplar seedlings is about $5 per acre. In eight years the crop is worth $600 per acre. Over a like period, $240 per acre would be a fair return for wheat crops. Poplars can also be grown on barren soil that now produces nothing. In addition to being valuable for papermaking, tree harvests could be sold as cellulose for rayon manufacture...