Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water. After several days of most arduous travelling, we reached Edsina, the famous town where Marco Polo prepared for his forty-day hike to the palace of the Great Khan at Kara Korum. One of the strange encroachments of the desert has left the town deserted now, but its huge walls stand up 35 feet in the air, making a picturesque sight with their weathered, unbaked bricks. The remains of the bastion form a particularly good example of medieval fortification. We did a great deal of digging here, unearthing a lot of stucco sculpture, with the color still fresh...
...lone exception to this state of exodus is the track squad, which will establish a patriotic precedent by refusing to desert the neighborhood of the Stadium, while their more adventurous and less sentimental brethren in the other branches of sport are languishing in Southern pastures...
...commended highly; but it is unfortunate that it should to any extent, be it ever so small (as for example the 30 mock martyrs who voted, after a large proportion of the audience had left the meeting, that "no individual should, under any circumstances, participate in war"), desert really constructive work for the good cause, such as the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association...
...Hugo Stinnes, whose last political act was to desert his German People's Party and form a new group, independent of Foreign Minister Stresemann, to be known as the National Liberal Alliance, anonunced that he would not be a condidate for the Reichstag at this election. In the last session his only activities were in the Foreign Relations Committee. He said that he intended to devote most of his time to his industrial and commercial interests...
...much of offset the slightly soggy ground and the chilly wind at Soldiers' Field as Coach Slattery's baseball squad took their last work-out of the week on the Freshman field yesterday. There will be no practice today, but on Monday, the whole squad, including the pitchers, will desert the cage for out-door practice...