Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chosen House to correct the cross-section makeup, intended to leave the Houses and to secure lodgings outside. Much of the agitation came from Kirkland House which received more than its ordinary quota from the socially prominent men. Complaints during the previous year, that Kirkland House was a "social desert" together with the building of Bryant Hall during the summer resulted in the concentration of many outstanding men in the Class of 1937 there...
Every schoolboy knows something about Lawrence of Arabia; most of them know that he is now Aircraftman Shaw. In his own lifetime Lawrence's fame has grown until his world-wide shadow is more than man-sized. From Revolt in the Desert, his own abridgment of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom* many a reader knows the salient facts of the most monumental chapter of Lawrence's career. His good friend Robert Graves's Lawrence & the Arabian Adventure filled in some further gaps. Now Liddell Hart, also a friend of long standing, attempts to answer all possible pertinent...
...hards were the Brothers El Hiba and Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan of the south, sometimes called "The Blue Sultan,"* sometimes "The Saint." Nabbed in 1917 by the French, El Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain...
...Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining speculator, never reopened. Transamerica's eastward move brought promise of a desert blooming of new banks. Reno's First National has long been hand-in-glove with Amadeo Peter Giannini and Nevadans welcomed the deal, hoping that under his control the $7,500,000 bank would soon begin to branch into bankless communities...
Both Bertram Sidney Thomas, first white man to cross the great Southern Arabian Desert (1930), and H. St. John Philby, a later traveler, encountered natives who told them of a once magnificent city buried in the sands. Aware of this, some archeologists hesitated to throw too much cold water on the Malraux bulletin, preferred to wait and see the photographs which lucky l'Intransigeant was expecting...