Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dalhart, Tex., the Commission visited a farm where green crops were growing on land that was near-desert two years ago, the result of Government experiments in soil conservation. Between Dalhart and Guymon, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, Dr. Tugwell and Mr. Cooke climbed dust hills 40 feet high to look out on a landscape of shifting dunes that once was fertile farm land. Mr. Cooke admitted: "This is about what we expected...
...West last week.* Whatever it was, the Jumbo Mine, in the Awakening district of Nevada's Slumbering Hills made headlines from San Francisco to Manhattan. Discoverers were two old prospectors, "Red" Staggs and Clyde Taylor, who spied the yellow flecks on the frozen ground of this sagebrush desert on Jan. 29, 1935. Three months later, in need of cash, they sold their find to George Austin, grizzled, 63-year-old keeper of the general store, hotel and filling station at Jungo, a tiny hamlet on the Western Pacific R. R., 36 miles southwest of Jumbo Mine. Price...
Herod was of desert stock, an Idumean, traditionally pagan in the Jewish world. He became king of Judea principally through the intrigues of his father, Antipater, who had been active in fomenting civil war in Palestine in the hope of securing Roman intervention. At that time Pompey, on a triumphal march from Armenia back to Rome, stopped to add to his laurels by putting Judea under Roman domination, left Antipater the real power behind a dummy king. Herod was thus always the representative of Rome in a remote and hostile country, first won recognition when he cleaned out rebellious patriots...
...Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having mapped and explored a great section of New Spain. An energetic, restless, fast-traveling administrator, he introduced wheat-growing and cattle-ranching into the desert areas, became one of the most vital of the Jesuits who kept up the great chain of missions from the head of the Gulf of California to Central America...
...routes Kino followed. Retracing Kino's steps has given Professor Bolton a feeling of familiarity with his hero. He writes of the great explorer informally as "not a man to cry over spilled milk," of his finding life no "bed of roses" as he struggled with the desert...