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Word: desert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roman travelers in the century after Christ would return to Rome with stories of naked hermits met in far, desert places, whose repeated word was the strange word which eventually worried Rome into believing it: "God is love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Solitary | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Lost Patrol (British). There was material for a masterpiece in the situation of these eleven soldiers on the Sahara desert. They had been riding under sealed orders to an unknown destination. A sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Exploitation matter for the picture states that it was made at places in the desert where the temperature was "never less than 120°." It is too bad that this heat, or something, made Director Walter Summers, known for his competent war newsreels, mess up this opportunity. The characters are never properly identified; the flashbacks into their lives are jerky and incomplete. Best shot: the evangelist going crazy and running out into the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Shelif" is a pure-blooded Arabian three-year-old stallion registered No. 591 A. H. C. descendant of the Homer Davenport Importation direct from the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...every field gun crew who desert with their gun to General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 400 Million Humiliations | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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