Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long has the desert of Ruba-el-Khali ("Abode of Loneliness"), wild, waterless, utterly unknown, remained "the white blot on the map." The southern interior of Arabia, centre of population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week...
...learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds-the "singing sands" of tribal tradition, which says they are desert-wandering "Djinns," spirits of the dead mourning for life...
...areas of the Amazon basin have escaped the eye and tread of civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America's narrow end. the snow-swept islands stretching vaguely north from Canada's "barren lands," and the American Southwest's trackless deserts...
...nice fairy story. Good shots among the 300,000 scenes that had to be built with Chinese perseverance and separately photographed to make this feature that runs an hour: storm-tossed waves with gleaming white crests made by cut paper and double-exposure; Achmed riding his horse across a desert while the sorcerer sends lightning to frighten...
...promptly disowned by his father. In 1922, 1924 he won sculpture prizes in Berlin, Venice, came to the U. S., got a job making models for Hollywood super-spectacles. Came the talkies and the end of such pageants, but Sculptor Katchamakoff was not disheartened. He moved to Palm Springs, desert oasis, rapidly growing as a health resort and Hollywood hideaway, there opened an art gallery, started an art school, earnestly advocated himself as Palm Springs' first mayor. Well aware of the value of publicity, Sculptor Katchamakoff flooded the U. S. press last week with photographs of his work, typed autobiographies...