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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another article which will be included in the issue is by Julian S. Bach '36 and entitled "The Drought and the Desert." Also the full text of President Conant's address to the members of the Class of 1938 will be printed. An enlarged book review section will be another feature of the number...
Following inorganic chemistry and usually followed by physical chemistry, Chem. 2a is an oasis in the somewhat avid desert of chemistry
...Louis, the Lindberghs headed west once more. At Roswell, N. Mex. a cactus punctured a tire as they were taking off, caused another delay. At Phoenix, Ariz. the tire went flat again, forced the Colonel to make a precarious one-wheel landing. Finally at Blythe, a small desert town in California, inadequate landing lights compelled the Lindberghs to remain overnight. They were still 300 mi. from their Pacific Coast goal...
Mystic Roerich's job will be to guide two experts from the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry through Central Asia to the rim of the Gobi Desert. There grow plants hardy enough to survive a summer heat of 100°, a winter cold of -40°, an annual rainfall of less than 16". From these he will help choose grasses and shrubs which can grow in the baking, shifting midlands...
...Hill, she gave regal audience to newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid...