Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will deny the possibility that eventually the Arctic regions will be filled with lanes of human traffic. If Captain Wilkins can fly successfully from land to land across the polar desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the scientific purposes converge on the Ice Pole, which is farther distant from any port than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land...
Even if mechanical ingenuity can patch up this patriarch of the desert, a projecting wall will have to be built around the figure, according to Arthur Woodley. American civil engineer A caged Sphinx whose head is held on by bars of Birmingham iron can scarcely be expected to personify the wisdom and mystery of the East...
...rejuvenate the impressive stone figure with metal monkey glands from the Occident is little short of sacrilege From the romantic point of view, to let the blown sand destroy that impassive face, which has looked over the desert for centuries is better than to imprison of within a wall. The Sphinx should meet its fate unblindfolded...
This time these theatrical rum-runners are going to smuggle into our dry dramaturgic desert some strong stuff from Russia and give us for once a draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most...
Asia. Speak of digging in Asia and you think of Roy Chapman Andrews. After another year on the uncivilized side of the Gobi Desert, he is on his way back to the American Museum of Natural History with plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe...