Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drive was carried on for the benefit of the Near East Relief to clothe the destitute people of Asia Minor who, according to the announcement at the beginning of the drive "have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer." In view of this it is striking to note that the largest item on the list, which indeed contains a goodly number of assorted clothes including 200 elderly neckties, was about three tons of magazines. The collection committee, feeling that these would not prove of particular advantage...
...Step by step Italians will force back the desert. That task will be one of the glorious pages of the new Italy. We shall force the sand dunes to retreat into the depths of the interior, creating gardens and forests in their places. ... It is a revelation to me that everything can grow here...
French native troops, mostly Senegalese, are allegedly often persuaded to desert to Krim by agents who penetrate the French lines and promise such deserters two young Riffian wives apiece...
...they sped, peering over the horizon for some distant rising film that would mean land. They reached what their instruments told them was the approximate point reached by Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before...
Still these and their political overflow have a rather small place in the undergraduate's platform of action. They are of the world beyond. And, while it would be disastrous to neglect the approach of that world, it would be fatuous to desert more impinging problems for it. If youth revolt and student reform are desirable, they are desirable where student comprehension is sufficient to insure both the sanity of new propositions and the discovery of effective reforming methods. It is the latter, attained through the former that will make college graduates fruitful innovators after college years...