Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southwestern Nebraska is a country full of weather. In the winter it freezes, in the summer, fries. Its gulch-pocked plateaus are the scene of alternate blizzards, droughts, tornadoes, dust storms, cloudbursts. Every once in a while a Nebraskan loses his patience, goes outside to shake his fist at God. Last week there was cause aplenty for fist-shaking...
...from the high plateaus of New Mexico last week trod the unfamiliar pavements of Manhattan's socialite East Seventies. They were drawn there to the home of Mrs. William Bayard Cutting by the most dramatic Senatorial demise since the late Senator Walsh dropped dead two days before his elevation to the Cabinet. If Bronson Murray Cutting had died fortnight ago of prosaic disease in a prosaic bed, instead of meeting violent death in an airplane, his exit from the political stage would still have been dramatic. For like Mercutio he died an early death while the play...
...sediments were being deposited, the drama was the same but with different actors. Then rhinoceroses trod this ground, the gigantic Andrewsarchus, greatest of all known flesh-eating land mammals, prowled at night, and fed upon the bodies of dying titanotheres. It was a world of nightmare creatures. The high plateaus of Africa today with their open plains and sparse forests offer a convincing parallel to ancient Mongolia...
Bleak and barren Jaipur, a Rajput realm on one of India's high plateaus, rejoiced in frenzied thanksgiving last week at what seemed to superstitious Rajputs a miracle...
...hounds against jungle beasts was moot when the expedition left the U. S. last winter. The late Paul Rainey had used a pack successfully in Africa many years ago. But Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt when they went to mid-Asia for Ovis poli found hounds useless on cold desert plateaus. On the other hand David Newell, Floridan organizer of the Matto Grosso pack, had confidence in U. S. dogs' abilities...