Word: desert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unknown there as the dodo. Nor does he ever hurry his breakfast to crowd around a horse-car and give a varsity team a send-off. Such send-offs would be as common as frogs in a millpond. Soldiers Field, even in the season, is as dead as a desert except within or near the Stadium; but University Park and the various private college fields are beehives of sport. Nor does the Oxford man do any less studying than the Harvard...
Century--"Athirst in the Desert," by L. Warner...
...Montana, near the border of Nevada, is the Mohave Desert, including the Valley of Death, which lies 150 feet below sea level. Here are found giant cacti, below which innumerable rattlesnakes and lizards crawl in the alkali dust...
...special correspondent of the Boston Herald, which he will describe this evening, are a tour into the Yosemite Valley, the mountain home of the waterfall and cascade; a stage trip through the large forests; a horse-back ride up Pike's Peak at night, a bicycle trip over the desert, and a visit to the great farms...
World To-Day--"The Paintings of Charles Hovey Pepper," by A. French '94; "Orchards in the Desert," by J. L. Laughlin...