Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a tenable thesis which doubt less affords some comfort to the holder, but it hardly fosters the germs of a cultural or intellectual advance. To bask in the glory of Emerson, it in not necessary to negate the value of Sand-burg. A poet in a cultural index; he is emblematic of the age in which he lives. As such he should not be removed to make way for those who have gone before; rather he should be studied to explain those who come after. The genius of the moderns may be questioned, but it is impossible...
...Sand grouse...
...Manchester Guardian quoted "the editor of one of the earliest of South African newspapers" on how to bag lions in the Kalahari Desert, as follows: ''The Kalahari is principally composed of sand and lions. First sift the sand through a large sieve, when only the lions will remain. These you place in a bag carried for the purpose...
...Results, All summer Saxony's toiling 120 have marched out to her dikes each day in squads. Sometimes waist deep in water, they have driven piles with heavy mallets, carted sand and stones in awkward wooden trays. Cost to the Saxon Government has worked out at 3 marks per day. Of this, 50 pfennigs represents the man's wage, plus 2 marks 50 pfennigs for his food. As former Saxon army barracks were used, and as the 120 washed their own bedding, the cost of lodging them was figured...
Election day was not dull. Expecting trouble, workmen early spread yellow sand over Santiago streets so that charging cavalry should not slip. The Government mobilized the full force of 18,000 mounted gendarmes and sent them picking their way over the sand about as heavily armored as any policeman could be: a long lance in one hand, a sabre at the saddle bow, a rifle across the back, a pistol...