Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the lions of Libya enjoyed Christians; the place where Cato committed suicide; a strange unknown city called the City of Fear, buried in the middle of the Sahara. The houses of this city, built in a country where in modern times rain never falls, were made entirely of sand and mud and stood eight stories high. There is a palace equipped with a complete heating plant; in the tomb of a dancing girl buried 2,000 years ago are a vanity case, a variety of rouges, mirrors, jewels, phials of perfume; 7,000 vases contain the skeletons of children...
Doura, which is on the Euphrates, has been covered by the sand of the desert for more than a score of centuries, in collaboration with the French Academy and with the permission of the Syrian government, excavation work on the city has been going on intensively for the past brace of years...
Turksib (Amkino). Two shining steel rails creep northward under a round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting...
...Many an individualistic woman of long ago bobbed her hair, viz., Joan of Arc, Lady Caroline Lamb (one of Byron's friends), George Sand...
...Manhattan, Barney Manger, 57, got in the way of an excavation cave-in, found himself buried under 15 feet of sand. Extricated by emergency squadmen, 35 minutes later, Barney Manger spat sand from his mouth, asked for a "couple of highballs...