Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge has been invited to California. He ought to accept and he should visit this Mojave desert. On a hillside, below a big rock, he would see a complicated, ingenious bulwark of small branches, each one carrying thorns, protecting the hole of the desert pack...
...exhibited last winter in Manhattan. Artist Rousseau painted it when his memory gave him a scene that some sentence or story had buried in his mind a long time before, perhaps in his childhood; for the picture of the night, the desert, the beast and the sleeping woman is achieved in accents as intense and dim as the words of a child in a fever. It may be that the word "Bohemian" had taken on, when he first heard it, some quality not its own, a jangling note that suggested the picture, for why the painted traveler, asleep under...
...study is condemned. In the course of two years of such (and other sorts of) graduate study, I have never yet failed to find in any graduate student a similar spark of rebellion against some of this "arid scholarship". Even the "sorriest" of the lot had rather that the desert were not quite so broad, nor so dry.--Many such students die of thirst, and many turn back. But there are always some who see "the sense of going further," and who have the mental courage to go, believing that the knowledge and discipline gained are worth the while...
...Orient was not, until last week, particularly fruitful. The broils of bellicose Chinamen disrupted Digger Roy Chapman Andrews' plans for another (fourth) season of fossil collecting in the Gobi desert, costing him his $225,000 camel train. He returned to the U. S. last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists...
Joss' protests that he was not a Sophomore only added fuel to the fire of the Freshmen's levenge for past hazing, Joss was forced to walk six milles back into Tucson under a blazing desert...