Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada has been, is, and may be in the future, more fortunate than the United States. ... It seems that nothing but catastrophe can check the furious progress of Americans into a still more bleak and dangerous desert of technology than they have reached now. The very vastness of the apparatus their genius has created stands over them like a strange and terrible master. Every man, as Sophocles said years ago, loves what he has made himself. Canadians have as yet fallen in love with no such Frankenstein. And, as a resuit of this, our future is more clearly...
Among the women in the adobe huts of town and desert, many of whom had never had medical help in delivery, word soon spread of a newfangled, less frightening way to bear children. For a $10 fee ($15 out of town), the sisters gave mothers a six-week, prenatal course at the institute, taught them how to make cribs and look after babies, attended their labor and delivery. By jalopy and on foot, Sister Theophane and Sister Michael (later joined by Sister Patrick and Sister Helen), traveled day & night across the rough desert, often curled up in sleeping bags outside...
...Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman.
¶J Cecil B. De Mille's Unconquered, involving Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard in flying
tommyhawks.
¶ Warner Bros.' Calamity Jane, with Ann Sheridan.
¶ Paramount's California, with Ray Milland and Barbara Stanwyck.
Based on fact, The Overlanders is a hard-riding yarn about a drover who refused to shoot 1,000 head of cattle, decided to "overland" them across 1,600 miles of forbidding mountains and desert. The storytelling, acting and incidental romancing are not quite up to Hollywood Standards. But the jagged, weirdly beautiful landscapes are novel and interesting...
...more expedient terrorist activities tainted with the unsavory odor of gangsterism? It takes Joseph two years to decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense difficulties involved in buying desert and turning it into a self-sustaining home are presented in detail. Joseph contrasts the high-strung, intellectual European Jew with the ". . . blond, freckled, broad-featured, heavy-boned farmers' sons, peasant lads . . . and slightly dull,"--the new Jewish strain developing in Palestine...