Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including Raseyn, a 7-year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...
...More than flesh can bear," is the reported discovery by Dr. Donald S. Wees of "white Indians with blond hair who live like animals in the Grand Desert of Northeastern Paraguay," according to a statement given out yesterday at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Repudiating Woes, who claimed to be "a Harvard explorer," the statement characterized him as "an obviously inexperienced amateur" and the publicity he gave out as "a revival of the White Indian hoax...
...door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin 'Whither?' And again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks...
...Instead of gathering an assembly for public worship ... he was doing just the reverse. He was denouncing worship in any form and calling upon his hearers to desert such a practice. The ordinance did not apply to him. . . . The section relating to public worship upon the streets had reference to religious services of some kind and did not include the attempt of the defendant to show that for centuries the majority of us have been wrong. . . . Worship means any form of religious service, showing reverence for the Divine Being...
...Modern Business Geography,published in 1930, has a shipping map showing one line going out of Los Angeles harbor.* World Geography, published in 1927, gives the city's population as 577,000 (it is 1,238,048), calls the harbor poor and the surrounding land a desert...