Word: barrens
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...Manhattan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the United Press Association; on May 17 in Washington before the American Medical Association; on May 30 at the Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate Memorial Day; on June 11 in Washington before the business organization of the Federal Government. C Barren Collier, booster, seller of streetcar advertising, had luncheon with President Coolidge, informed him that a survey of 3,500 U. S. cities pointed to business prosperity. The first six months of 1927, said Mr. Collier, should yield as large profits as the corresponding record-breaking period...
...then explained that since the American sprang from humble origins transplanted on a barren shore, it is of little wonder that he is artistically an ignoramus...
...undeniable, especially to those who have seen spring come in other climates, that in Cambridge it is an insidious malady. It will be a month or more before the trees are green; but the absence of the decayed mounds of snow, the softness of the sun on the barren bricks of the street, are damning to all in themselves; and the CRIMSON extends to all those afflicted with spring fever its best wishes for a lingering convalescence...
Stops were male along the bleak coast line at the tiny settlements in the sheltered bays. Altogether there were only 35 families, 200 people in all, which scrape up a bare existence in this barren land...
...Bureau of the Socialist and Labor International in Zurich, Switzerland, enumerated last week the names of 15 Italian Deputies of the Opposition whom Premier Mussolini is alleged to have ordered and sent into exile on the barren islands off the coast of Sicily. The Bureau, which made these charges in a dispassionate report, alleges that over 1,000 antiFascists are in political exile on these Islands, imprisoned in company with common criminals, insufficiently nourished...