Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shem, Japheth and the girls prove irredeemably wayward, human. By the time his craft comes to a perch atop Mount Ararat, Noah has even lost confidence in his distressed, slightly balmy wife. The children desert him, the animals turn savage, and poor old Noah is left sad, infirm, alone. He does not think he has quite deserved all his troubles. He doubts if their imposition has been quite "sporting" of God. But there is just one thing he wants to know. He lifts his shaggy face to heaven. "Are you satisfied?" he calls. "Are you satisfied?" And again...
...strength of his one-man expedition is doubled when he strikes up an acquaintanceship with Perken, a German-Danish adventurer of unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands...
...government of the South, helped stage the Canton insurrection. He could supply at least the scenery for The Royal Way from his archeological explorations in Cambodia and Siam. A publisher's assistant (house of Gallimard), he takes adventurous holidays, last year flew across the Great Arabian Desert and reported the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba (TIME, March...
Nevertheless Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën (Royal Dutch Airlines) last week blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting...
...earth, with the single exception of Mongolia, has ordered the Jews into banishment. Readers first meet the race in Road of Ages as it is wandering across Hungary and through the passes of the Carpathians, some twelve-months distant in time from the allotted refuge in the Gobi Desert. There are banking Jews from the Paris Bourse, London's City, the New York Stock Exchange; pork-eating Jews from Germany; strictly kosher Jews from Galicia and Palestine; liberal Jews from the New York of Temple Emanu-El; Socialist Jews from the locals of the Second International; Communist Jews from...