Word: barren
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...these tracks in the sand did not make themselves. Much of the blame can justly be eased onto the feeble and barren instruction which the University frequently offers. Too many professors and instructors are--what is worse than incapable--disinterested in students and unwilling to help solve their problems. Too many courses are simply a chaos of information, disconnected and illogical, which only extraordinary minds can organize. Unusual minds can; others are forced across Massachusetts Avenue...
...House sports will have more money placed in their barren coffers than they have ever had up to the present time. But, let it be remembered, that if this scheme is born of the present in view of the budget, it is also of the future in view of the ideal...
...Died. Barren Gift Collier, 65, philosopher ("Barren Collier says"), hotelman, realtor, world's No. 1 streetcar-card adman, whose company's posters are said to be seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...
...great popularity, and the "progressive" courses he gave evidently filled a need in a moribund department, out of touch with present realities. It is doubtful if his shoes will be filled and his work continued since the sun withered him in this soil and showed it was barren. A good idea and a good man are lost to Harvard...
They reached Cocos. Only vestiges of life on the barren island were so many picks and shovels left by previous treasure hunters, that "it looked like an abandoned WPA project." With Countess di Frasso offering suggestions, the crew "dug hell out of that island," but they found only rocks. Bello did not mind; they would go fishing, he said...