Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peculiarity of this statue was, that at dawning, while still covered with the tears of [his mother] Eos, it was his custom to emit a curious sound of metallic quality, much to the amazement of the temple dancing girls assembled on the sands of the desert to do him honor...
...Morse Colgate was chairman of the new company till his death in 1930, but the old family's influence passed into the background. S. Bayard, son of Sidney, though handicapped by ill health, ably captained Roy Chapman Andrews' motor transport on its first venture into the Gobi Desert. Since his father's death he has managed the family interest in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Quiet, clear-headed Bayard Colgate, now only 34, has again obtained control-which the Colgate family has not had since 1928-will try to right his great-grandfather's tilted monument...
Knox was an individualist-more than anyone knew-and disgruntled young men, smarting under the tyranny of I. A. & A., began to desert their posts and come to him by night. Soon he had a picked corps. Directors of I. A. & A. wanted no trouble with Knox, partly because of his fame (he was the Lindbergh-Edison-Einstein of his day) but mostly because they feared some threatening invention up his sleeve. Sure enough, Knox had discovered Motive Air: utilization of elements in the air itself to drive airplanes at a speed of over 1,000 m.p.h. In his carefully...
...hitherto preserved the open-mind policy with surpassing success. There have been pseudo-reversals of position; there have been mutterings as to the possibility of "unfavorable publicity"; finally, the buck was passed to the redoubtable Cambridge legislators. As a result, the undergraduate body has been left in a desert of thirsty suspense, while the rest of the nation may count the hours with reasonable certainty...
...that the tutorial system can never come to any real fruition. Dining hall conferences might take on a rich new aspect of reciprocal frankness and loquacity were the reign of iced cocoa to be challenged. For the tutorial system was transplanted from its lush native environment into an unfamiliar desert where it has been cruelly desiccated and may soon be destroyed...