Word: desert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Medical School, quoted from Dr. Holmes' life in Thayer's two pages, is the only exception. Evidently another series of articles, with a larger spice of personal reminiscence, might follow this one. Some of the chapters might be: the President as a summer housekeeper, by a native of Mt. Desert; the President as a guest at Harvard Clubs, by old graduates all over the country; how I have changed my opinion about the President, by certain Harvard non-graduates; the President as a receiver of gifts, by the givers; and the President as host to foreign visitors, from all over...
...Butler '09 Haw, contractor and builder, R. Middlemass '09 Joseph, J.P.S. Harrison '09 Googoo, a private detective, A.P. Loring, Jr., '09 Abdullah, Grand Vizier of Egypt, H.W.H. Powel, Jr., '09 Bung, a butler, A.M. Jones '09 Habbadash, a prophet, F. Schenck '09 Foreman, K.S. Cate '09 Ship of the Desert, H. Gray '09, J.M. Groton '09 Jacob, a workman, C.L. Lanigan '10 Ethiopian Attendant, H.B. Barton '09 An Architect, G. deC. May '09 A Private Secretary, G. Lewis '09 Queen Semiramis of Egypt, R.H. Hutchinson '10 Ruth, F.M. Blagden '09 Esther, an unappreciated maiden, G.P. Gardner, Jr., '10 Babylonian courtiers...
Besides being used for pleasure, balloons can be employed for exploration. Several people have crossed the Sahara desert and have attempted to reach the North Pole in this manner, though without success. In the future, balloons will be used for reconnoitering in times of war, and for this purpose the French have built the "Republique" and the Germans are helping Count Zeppelin construct another dirigible balloon. The great advance that has been made in this line is in the fact that these balloons are driven by motor power...
...Society of England, in the course of this travels he has visited most of the countries of the Orient, where he has had unusual opportunities for acquiring an intimate knowledge of the land. He is thoroughly conversant with both the inhabited regions of the East and the wastes of desert and jungle. In exterminating the lions and tigers that infest many of the Asiatic and African villages, Dr. Smith has frequently been a great benefactor to the natives...
...some of the Eastern potentates. In traveling through Africa, Korea, and China, Dr. Smith earned the gratitude of many of the natives by exterminating lions and tigers that were constantly a source of terror to the inhabitants of isolated villages. In a word, he knows the jungle and desert and can make his hearers feel their charm...