Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tucson, Ariz., October 5--John Joss, last year's Yale football captain and all American tackle, had a taste of Freshman days yesterday when he was mistaken for a Sophomore and given a ride into the desert be a gang of University of Arizona Freshmen, Joss is taking postgraduate work in law at the university here this year...
...spoor marker of the days when nomadic Hebrews, detaching themselves from their fellow Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Desert, settled themselves down to a pastoral, and, later, an agricultural life in Canaan. Pious Jews, bound even though they be by modern commerce, memorialize it for seven days, wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah...
Mongolia's climate changed. Dry winds shriveled the vegetation; drifting sand built hills on old lakebeds. What had once been a green animal paradise became a desert called Gobi, sparsely inhabited by a sturdy but backward breed of humans, together with herds of wild asses, antelopes, domesticated sheep and draft camels. The centuries passed...
...Darwin Heads and harbor, over the blasting sirens of steamers and warships, then a tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift the craft (a big De Havilland biplane) ashore and fit her with wheels; she was to fly on, over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic...
Died. Mrs. A. Montgomery Ward, 70, widow of the mail order marketer; at her Chicago home, of heart disease, following heat prostration on a train going through the desert near Yuma, Ariz...