Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon became apparent that he intended not to desert his party but to criticize its policies from within. Said the Conservative Party's great idealist who may one day make a popular Prime Minister: "It is with the Great Democracies of Europe and America that our natural affinities must lie. We must stand by our conceptions of International Order, without which there can be no lasting peace. ... It is the duty of His Majesty's Government at this time to be vigilant and to be firm. The decision is made. The Government must then go ahead. I most...
...surface of Marco's famed Munchausenish travel tale, comes at length to a cockleshell's finale. With about as much relish for his task as a small boy's for his homework, lank, ingenuous Actor Gary Cooper dons Marco's 13th-Century raiment, crosses desert, sea & mountain only to find, in a remarkable conception of old Peking, George Barbier dressed up as Kublai Khan. Historically, Kublai Khan was China's strong man, who conquered all of China & ruled more subjects than he could count. Producer Goldwyn's Cathay is pretty thoroughly under the well...
...weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite plunged on underground, shattered the rock strata into rubble, came to rest at last 1,200 or 1,500 ft. below the surface...
Financial Desert. Although advised that TIME could not properly be launched with less than $1,000,000 capital, Editors Luce and Hadden started with only $85,000. This they obtained by selling preferred and a little common stock in TIME Inc.* to citizens who had more faith that a newsmagazine would be a public service than that it would be a financial success...
...great fortress of Thel, through the religious centres of On and Per-Bastet, on a nine-day voyage up the crowded Nile past Memphis and the pyramids, he gives himself up to observation, impressed and depressed at the grandeur of a civilization of which, as a child of the desert, he has heard only evil...