Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sticking its head in the sand...
...pool; two Alpine gardens complete with rocks and running brooks; Japanese gardens with twisted pine trees, thatch-roofed tea houses. All week long crowds of curious Easterners milled about the desert garden of Robert F. Manda where more than 1,000 varieties of weird misshapen cacti were growing in sand and rocks. Fourth day of the show the crowd grew even thicker. The "Crown of Thorns," a rare silver-grey prickle bush brought from Palestine by Cactus-grower Manda 25 years ago, had suddenly burgeoned with dozens of brilliant red flowers. Only once in three or four years does...
Legend has peopled the centre of the Abode of Loneliness-half again as large as France-with the remnant of a race whose mighty civilization long ago was overthrown, buried by the shifting sand. Scientific speculation has long visualized there a central, sunken oasis capable of sustaining life. Midway of his 58-day trek, Explorer Thomas crossed deep caravan tracks. He learned from his Bedouin followers that it was the road to Urbar, buried city of tribal legend. But no other trace of civilized man or oasis did he find. He heard the great dunes made vocal by the winds...
...were up in all the native villages along the route; Governor-General Jules Carde had motored from Algiers. At his signal a long line of 17 dromedaries moved forward, at first evenly, then in bunches. They started north along the way to Ghardaïa, running in the soft sand beside the motor road...
...night the racers lie down, each rider against the warm back of his mount. The desert is cold at night, as though chilled by the moon which gives the wind-molded sand the color of ice. No use to force a camel in a long race; what he makes the first day he will lose the second. At Ghardaïa, the Mezabits rode out to meet the first camel which, heavy-footed, appeared on the desert's rim. The rider was one Mohamed Ahabi, the dromedary "Fleet as Sirocco." The pair had covered...