Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is because on the desert or in a parked automobile there is not the immediate opportunity for prophylactic treatment as is provided in the houses of prostitution...
...rating of lecturers and their abilities is hardly more edifying but fully as enlightening as to the nature of the field. It is well to have many good research men, but that is not enough. The sprinkling of fine, stimulating teachers mark the Department as occasional oases on a desert--a desert through which a concentrator has, nevertheless, to travel...
...tour the Company has required a special train with five baggage cars for scenery, eleven Pullmans for the dancers, stagehands and the 50-odd orchestramen. The train is a world by itself. Baronova is twitted for her marriage and the fact that it caused her to desert her two pet monkeys. Toumanova is teased about one admirer in Austin, Tex., who sends her flowers at every railroad stop, another in Montreal who besieges her with presents and long-distance telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train...
...Iran's tall, autocratic King of Kings Reza Shah Pahlavi, 58, gets older, his temper gets shorter. Less & less can he bring himself to humor the outlying world beyond his vast desert land, larger than Germany, France and Great Britain combined but with a population of only 15,000,000. Last year he curtly notified the diplomatic corps in Teheran that New Year's Day is March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed...
...achievement itself rather than of the presentation. For the picture is as baldly concrete as one could imagine. There is no symbolism or dramatization. It is merely an excellently photographed and skillfully edited portrayal of the pioneer camps, the new cities, the struggle with the neglected soil turned desert, the new industries, and the new emotional and artistic outlets. But it is almost inevitable that the reader sublimate all this in his own thinking to something idealistic...