Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honeyed Goddess. Last month Digger Sestieri hit real pay dirt. His workers broke into Paestum's "sacred precinct," surrounded by a wall of massive square boulders. Inside they found a small, hut-shaped temple. The interior walls were of stucco; on the floor were a rust-corroded iron bedstead and a set of ornate, gilded bronze water jars. Each jar, decorated with figures of female heads, sphinxes, rams and serpents, was filled with an amber-colored, resinlike substance: solidified honey. Presumably distilled from the nectar of Paestum's famed roses, the 2,500-year-old honey...
...Manhattan last week a one-man Senate investigating committee spaded up some fresh dirt on postwar apartment projects backed by the Federal Housing Administration (TIME, July 26). Called to the stand by Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush was Lawyer Thomas Grace, who was New York State FHA director from...
...Dirt and grime alone are not responsible for Los Angeles' notorious, eye-stinging smog. The real villain is Southern California's much-touted sunshine, reports the Stanford Research Institute after a seven-year study...
...Indianapolis, arrested by police, Alonso Burnett explained that the two-foot blackjack in his car was useful for tamping the dirt in flower beds...
Magnetic Maid. A cleaning device that attracts dust and dirt magnetically into small piles for easier sweeping has been put on the market by Damar Products, Inc. of Newark, N.J. "Magnetik Sweeper" has rubber ridges on the bottom, which create electrostatic action. Price...