Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"In some parts of the Great Kizil Kum Desert, cotton was cultivated 10,000 years before Christ, but these plantations have long since been obliterated by the shifting sands. With expert American help the Soviet government intends to make the rivers in Turkestan do for this enormous barren area what...
Jose Clemente Orozco started as a caricaturist. Early he gained a reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he...
John Pierpont Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, and Owen D. Young, who was in Canada, advised M. Moreau by cable whom to invite from the U. S. Europe today knows better than to expect the President of the U. S. or Federal Reserve Bank Governor Roy Archibald Young...
The most outstanding feature of the new Langdell Hall, which will be shown to the visitors following the ceremonies, is the new reading room, the largest in the world, 480 feet long, extending the entire length of the building. In the center of this huge room there is located a...
The tale concerns Hidalgo County in far southeastern Texas. Twenty years ago Hidalgo was flat, hot, empty, covered with mesquite, stalked by lonely, dusty greasers. Today Hidalgo is a shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop...