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Diamond deals with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie left the U.S. almost barren of chlorate of potash capacity, an essential not only of match making but of ammunition, when war broke...
...schedule, as it stands, is rather barren. The first game will be played against Worcester Polytechnic Institute at Worcester on May 20, with a return match here on June 10. The team is also slated to travel up to Andover for a match on May 27. Other matches will be scheduled and announced in the near future...
...schedule as it now stands presents a barren list of dates, with Andover scheduled on May 13, and a home-and home pair with Brown for May 20 and July 15. Service games are being sought, and arrangements with local colleges will be made...
...universe was made at the Harvard Observatory. If was based upon measurements which used the large amount of cosmic dust present in our universe as a basis. These clouds of dust had previously puzzled astronomers. The astronomers were unable to tell whether they were looking at a region barren of stars on the outer extremities of space, or whether the view was merely cut off at some intermediary point by the dust clouds...
...barren steppes behind the Ural Mountains more than a decade ago Soviet workers wrested a city of iron: Magnitogorsk. They paid for it with blood and sweat and countless rubles. They built it with modern tools and with their naked hands, and they are still building it today. The reward for them, and for those who built other great industrial centers in the Urals, was nothing less than the salvation of their country from the Germans...