Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This week U. S. Protestantism's foremost journal, after ruminating the President's words, spewed them forth. It found in them a "naked and appalling meaning." The Christian Century declared that Mr. Roosevelt's speech was "like the attempt of a Mohammedan mullah to raise desert tribesmen to frenzy by preaching another jehad...
...TIME'S "ideas of poetry" are based not on semantics-the science of meaning-but on poetry-the articulation of reality. Because many "poets" are adept at articulating unreality does not seem to TIME good reason for it to desert its single standard of poetry criticism: poems that articulate real sense are poems; poems that articulate unreal non-sense are not poems...
Realism. M. Daladier's trip was not entirely spent in mere ceremonial. Tanks, artillery and soldiers were displayed for Tunisia's-and Italy's-benefit. Two hundred eighty miles southeast of Tunis and 65 miles from the Italian-held Libyan frontier is France's desert Maginot Line of barbed wire, small forts and pillboxes buried in sand dunes...
Freed by his fellowship, leathery Edward Weston has covered 25,000 miles of California and New Mexico on sorties lasting two and three weeks from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...
...Italian Premier Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval signed a treaty ceding to Italy not only a piece of desert south of Libya but a strip between French Somaliland and Italian Eritrea which would have given Italy a position on the Gulf of Aden, the island of Dumeria in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and a share in the French-owned Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad...