Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short time ago Prohibition was in vogue. Mrs. Peabody was safe from chaos. The wets, however, did not give up their cause as lost and leave the country. If they had the United States would now be a desert and Canada would be wrestling with the problems of over population...
...Next morning they are likely to resume their sleep during the monotonous passage across the oil fields and prairies of Kansas and Oklahoma to Amarillo, Tex. But there will be no catnaps that afternoon. Slowly the plane begins its climb over foothills and broken mesa interspersed by patches of desert, signposts to the Rockies. Over the first range, the Continental Divide, near Winslow. Then into a glory of reds, greens and browns if the atmosphere is clear and the afternoon sun bright, across the fearful maw of Red Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther...
With such characters to work with Miss Lehmann has written a novel of considerable beauty. Bringing together these people in a perfectly normal situation she succeeds in giving her theme a real musical note that develops into a poignant melody when the young couple desert the town and leave the original characters to settle back into their ordinary lives...
city explain why this magnificent thoroughfare is as barren as a desert of trees, shrubbery, flowers or grass? With these embellishments Wilshire Boulevard would be without a rival among the capitals of the world. Is it the lack of water for irrigation purposes from which Los Angeles suffers that prevents greenery? In my admiration of this wonderful Boulevard I have often wondered why this absence of parking...
...mountains of Guatemala are located, by reason of the changes in fauna which occur, not only as one ascends or descends a mountain peak through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude on what mountain peak every bird is taken...