Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunters in his fabulous story was scarcely greater than that of archaeologists. Petra is a historical mystery. It was the capital of the plundering Nabataeans whose domain, in 100 B. C., stretched from Damascus on the north to Gaza on the west, through Palestine and east into the Arabian Desert. Some unrecorded tragedy wiped out the Nabataeans and made their city shunned by Arabs. The location was lost to European science until a German explorer found it again in 1812. . . . British Museum savants, aided now by their country's protectorate in Palestine, were first to set out for a thorough...
...Nevada, on dry beds in Lake Lahontan, near Lovelock, were found the remains of a human settlement evidently of Asiatic origin for it had camels. Piute and Shoshone Indians have legends about a wise race that lived in the Nevada desert. In 1833 a white trader found a live camel in an Indian Village. The Lake Lahontan settlement appeared to have been exterminated about 200 years...
...follows: 1) to support any considerable Chinese faction the activities of which are such that they tend to hasten the coming of a true revolution by the entire Chinese proletariat; 2) to withdraw support from Chinese revolutionary groups if and when they develop bourgois tendencies and desert the cause of proletarian revolt; 3) to expect that the Chinese revolution, in its true and final aspect, will be slow in developing, and cannot be hastened by immediate and violent measures...
GIANTS IN THE EARTH-O. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Over the wide grass lands the wind walked, making cat's-paws on a green ocean. Beret sat on the prairie schooner, staring at immensity, feeling the nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar...
...scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd said: "That's an interesting flight but it's not in my line...