Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this sinful world before they have exhausted their own final resources. And 100 years after the Mormons' perilous trek to Utah's Great Salt Lake, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is far from being exhausted. In its self-made oasis on the Western desert, it is flourishing like a green bay tree...
Green Valleys. In 100 years the Mormons have won their war with wastes of sagebrush, sun-parched alkali flats and barren mountains. Their desert has indeed blossomed like the rose. Orchards, dairies and sugar-beet fields in green Utah valleys are a tribute to their skill at irrigation, and great stands of wheat prove the worth of their dry farming. Utah's 555,000 cattle and 1,646,000 sheep stem mostly from Mormon herds. Mormons built roads, farms, towns and temples across the West...
...m.p.h. at 40,000 ft.) in the cold air of high altitudes. Well below these speeds, the "sonic barrier" makes itself felt, jamming an airplane's controls, destroying the lift of its wings. The P-80R got up to Mach .81 last week over the hot, sun-baked desert. If it had flown at 20,000 ft., it would have met less resistance from the thin upper air but it might have run into "compressibility effects" when it came too close to the cold-slowed speed of sound...
...Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine for what it considers the "intelligentsia," will not desert its long-standing partisanship of "radical values and literary standards...
...there so many faithful Moslems? British Author R. V. C. Bodley, who lived many years among them, suggests this partial answer: in the illimitable nothingness of the desert or the oppressive dark of the jungle, without the distractions of Western civilization, men find the need for worship constant and pressing...