Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the output of books increasing at an equal pace, and with such uncertain means for judgment, the casual reader and the book-buyer are put to it to make profitable selections. The desert-island test of a book's value, recently restored to academic popularity, would find little, nowadays, that could be passed...
...Five French caterpillar tractors have arrived in Timbuctoo after a two thousand mile trip across the African desert, accomplishing in twenty-one days what takes a camel caravan three months...
...picture is one to fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West...
...once Mr. Monteux's genius as program-maker seemed to desert him, when, yesterday afternoon, he piled Franck upon Franck to the extent of boredom. The hundredth anniversary of Franck's birth must, I suppose, be celebrated in some way; it would seem however, as if a finer impression of Franck's genius would result from a program in which he was not so overworked...
...students that "the inns were not sufficient to contain them." While great philosophers of antiquity had only a very small number of pupils, Abelard had, according to Compayre, five thousand in his school in Paris. And when he retired at one time with but one pupil to a "desert place," students finding his retreat followed him. "Cities and castles were deserted for this Thebaid of science. Tents were set up; mud walls, covered with moss, rose to shelter the numerous disciples who slept on the grass and nourished themselves with rustic dishes and coarse bread...