Word: desort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost impossible for observations during the rainy season from October to May; when clouds cover the sky almost continuously. Other points in Peru and Chile were visited, and Arequipa was on the whole found to be the only practical choice. for although a station at Pampa Central, on the desort of Altacama in Chile, seemed to possess somewhat better climatic conditions, the living conditions were practically impossible...
...places Production above Humanity; which strikes a strident note of movies, cheap Lingazines, jazz--anything to take the place of constructive thinking. Chicago's grand opera company is dying for lack of support; the centers of real culture, in the East are very small oases in a very Large desort. These facts disclose a truly lamentable condition; they mean that Ruskin's. "There is no wealth but life" is being discarded for the "Goddess of Getting...
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