Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heritage as an institution for recognized professional training. In the past it has received far less financial aid than the other graduate schools in Harvard, and for some time it looked as if it would be just another case of the flower wasting its sweetness on a very arid desert air. Fortunately this impression has now been proved unfounded and the school is being offered some materials and opportunity for development...
...Desert Film...
...There are only three large regions in the world which are unexplored so far; Antarctica, the Polar Sea region, and portions of the Sahara desert. Of these Antarctica is the largest by far, and it is also the least known...
...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
...appropriation was made in 1855, and in that year a ship was outfitted for the voyage and sent in search of camels. Ten were purchased on this trip, three in Tunis and seven in Smyrna, and duly brought back to serve as pack animals in the American Desert...