Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is highly praiseworthy; the sponsors of the scheme, no doubt, looking abroad upon a naughty world and finding it bad, have decided to establish for themselves a little oasis of purity in the surrounding desert of profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing...
...warm. There are from 70 to 100 days in the growing season. But over the mountains to the north there are rarely more than 40 days in the year in which there is no killing frost. Not only is it a polar land, it is almost a desert as well. It has less than ten inches of rainfall a year?about the same amount as Arizona or Nevada. There are no trees, only a very little stunted vegetation...
...CRAZY MAN?Maxwell Bodenheim?Hat-court ($2.00). * Her works include: Heart of the Desert, Still Jim, The Enchanted Canyon...
Heritage of the Desert. In the telling of Western stories Zane Gray and the cinema are, in their respective mediums, difficult to defeat. Therefore when they get together the resulting entertainment must be big medicine. Ably assisted by Ernest Torrence, Bebe Daniels, Noah Beery, the cinema chemists have herein compounded an exceptionally vigorous specific...
...astronomical station of the Harvard Observatory, equipped with two photographic telescopes, has just been installed on the edge of the nitrate desert of Northern Chile to test the atmospheric conditions in that locality, and to watch and photograph the southern stars that cannot be studied at the existing stations of the Observatory located at Cambridge, at Mandeville, Jamaica, and at Arequipa, Peru...