Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chalk Age (60-130 million years ago), achieved wingspreads up to 30 feet. These hollow-boned hobgoblins weighed no more than a Thanksgiving turkey. In the older Jurassic period (130-170 million years ago) they were generally much smaller than in the Chalk Age. Digging into a desert mountain slope which once was seabottom, Dr. T. A. Stoyanow, University of Arizona geologist, laid bare a Jurassic pterosaur skeleton with a wingspread of some 28 feet, biggest specimen of that period ever found...
...least we can look forward to the day when every major city will have decided to protect its people from further destruction of property, criminal attacks, intimidation, and indignity. For next year's convention, dear buddies, may I suggest the most inaccessible reaches of the Mojave Desert...
Introduced by her grandfather to the intellectual life, by the doctor's wife to sophisticated social and artistic worlds, Sister remains in the wilderness after her grandfather dies. The villagers make fun of her, her highbrow friends desert her, and she often goes hungry. Her girlhood sweetheart Mitch Holt serves a prison term in Atlanta, returns to the River, marries her, settles down. Infidelities, doubts, constant hardships mar their marriage, but Sister, pained more by Mitch's growing contentment than by his occasional wildness, dreads most of all her power to tame him, fights the tendency...
...full blast last week to announce such absurdities as that Russia's army had been increased to 9,000,000 men. In a Goebbels frenzy the Nazi Press screamed with page-wide headlines that "under the curse of the Marxist terror Spain is today being converted into a desert!" and that Stalin's hordes are thirsting to make Germany a barren waste. Neutral correspondents noted that while joy was the German reaction last year when the Treaty of Versailles was torn up and the Fatherland given a one-year conscript Army (TIME, June 3, 1935), the two-year...
...classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections of The People, Yes deal with the poetry and sardonic humor of the people: The old-timer on the desert was gray and grizzled with ever seeing the sun: "For myself I don't care whether it rains...