Potsdamer was the busiest square in Europe in the 1930's, but now is a nearly barren tract where the Berlin wall once stood.

Mr. Clawson--"Mr. Chairman, I move the insertion of the words five and twenty cents, as representing the true value of this barren and isolated tract of desolation."

An airina-durga is built on saline soil of barren tract or on fens impregnated with saline water and protected by the thorny bushes that grow there.

In 1938, when Otis Dozier produced "Grasshopper and Farmer," it could be read as a wry allusion to the tribulations of the farmer on his barren tract of land.

And later, at the urging of the first bank to finance the land acquisition, they became partners with the Lefrak Organization in the rebirth of that barren tract of rail yard.

Oceanview was to buy the mostly barren, two-mile-long tract from the city for almost $70 million and, over a decade, build a $1.5 billion complex of 7,500 apartments, shopping malls and parks.

Indeed, officials say the hot weather is causing new fires in the peat bogs and barren tracts of logged land in Sumatra and Borneo.

The area is mostly deserted and consists of barren tract of the sand dunes covered with thorny bushes.

Fighting for the Great Rann - It's a desolate, barren tract of land, but the armed forces guard it with a fierceness that inspires nothing short of awe.

A barren tract intervenes between these zones and is beyond the reach of the hill streams on the one hand and of the Indus on the other.