Word: barrens
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...Among other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich., and Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. C. The President received Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra...
...responding potently to the Dictator's plea for better, faster begetting (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante). It is not even enough that Italy now leads all Europe in surplus of births over deaths.* Brushing such trifling achievements aside, young, ardent Editor Carli continued, last week, his slashing indictment of barren thin ladies, set a relentless quota...
...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...
...root of the evil is urbanism or metropolitanism. The metropolis grows by attracting to itself the population of the country, which, as soon as it becomes urbanized, becomes barren. . . . The progressive sterility of city dwellers is in direct ratio to the rapidly monstrous growth of the city. Berlin, which in one century passed from 100,000 to more than 4,000,000 inhabitants, is today the most sterile city in the world. The bigger a city becomes the more barren it becomes...
...five per cent of them reach out after M. I. T. men. This fact must be considered significant. Why should Harvard men be favored in such preponderance? The obvious answer is to be found in the superiority of the Coop and Widener Library as trysting places over the barren laboratories of the, Technological Institute...