Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cows weigh about 80 Ibs. Not longer than 48 hours after arriving at the Pribilofs, each gives birth to a pup. Two weeks later the cow seals desert their progeny, returning at ever-lengthening periods to feed them, investigate their growth, teach them how to swim. Their rookeries are situated along the shore or a little inland among the barren rocks...
...time since he left the White House, a public character performing a public function. At the request of President Hoover, he broke his homeward journey across the continent at Globe, Ariz. In state as they used to be, he and Mrs. Coolidge were escorted 30 miles out across the desert to a canyon in the Gila River. Across the canyon, backing the river up into a 25-mile-long lake, lay a $6,000,000 dam named for Citizen Coolidge. As President, he had inaugurated this great reclamation project. As a President's representative, he last week dedicated...
...were gathered about the canyon when Citizen Coolidge arrived from Globe with Arizona's Governor John C. Phillips. He climbed up the dam parapet to speak. The beat of tom-toms died away. He had a sore throat; his voice was husky. A plane droned disturbingly in the desert stillness above. Citizen Coolidge began...
...impulse, Mencken has some illuminating things to say about it: "Always, in time of bloodshed, pestilence and poverty, there is what theologians call a great spiritual awakening. But when peace and plenty caress the land the priest has a hard time keeping his flock at prayer, and great numbers desert him altogether. ... I am myself a theologian of considerable gifts, and yet I can no more imagine immortality than I can imagine the Void which existed before matter took form. Neither, I suspect, can the Pope...
...effectiveness of collegiate participation. It may as well be granted at once that it is impossible to hope for anything like an immediate modification of existing conditions. But the drys know well that by patiently collecting grains of sand they have turned the United States into a legal desert. The modificationists might well copy their tactics and by abandoning their defeatist regrets, set patiently to work collecting drops of water with which to cultivate a more livable temperate zone...