Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...episodic life. Beginning with her soul saving activities in China as a preacher's widow, the continuity will include the scene of her still dubious abduction. Emerging from the sea in a dripping green bathing suit, she will be deftly anesthetized by villains, whisked away to the Mexican desert...
...niceties of the tender passion. It is pleasant to find that even the French, recognized specialists along those lines, realize that another well-populated nation has learned how to make love. This transportation and transplanting of the gentler arts of living to blossom like a rose even in the desert lands around Salt Lake City marks another triumph under the banner of the dollar sign. Bitter will be American globe-trotters and steamship lines when the culture-minded will see America last as well as first and hesitate to venture into barbarous and depleted Europe. Thanks...
...arid Mojave Desert, a queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...
...eyes of some persons, students may be better qualified to debate on education and athletics, their contribution to the mass of material on government and industry will prove at least novel. At any rate, the ancient adage that the younger generation should confine its personality to the desert air is going to receive another setback...
Explorers in the Galapagos Islands have discovered a man and a woman living alone, like the hero and heroine of some improbable fiction, on a desert island 500 miles from the South American mainland. The explorers asked some questions, left a year's supplies. They learned that the sun-browned, crudely clad gentleman was no castaway, but a German scientist, Dr. Karl Ritter. He once lived in Berlin, has a wife in Baden. Last July, tired of civilization, anxious to study the effect of uncooked foods on the digestion and sunlight on the skin, he projected the Galapagos venture...