Word: dust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pulverized Coal acts exactly as a liquid, if heated moderately, said President Walter E. Trent of the Trent Process Co., Manhattan. The heat raises tiny bubbles on the coal dust and the lubricated particles then roll so that the stream can be piped an appreciable distance like water...
...national government is glamorous, but it is the city government which steps most noticeably on people's toes. It is the city that a man curses when he finds a parking ticket on his car, when his car is stolen, when he gets dust in his eye, when the street sprinkler squirts his new suit, when his son comes from the public school with a bloody nose, when his son cannot go to school because of a measles epidemic...
...between the Humanists and the Reformers of the early sixteenth century. He was a strange sort of a man, a genius with a Faustian passion for knowledge, a poet with a high ideal of a knightly national regeneration, whose golden dreams were yet all strongly fated to turn to dust and ashes. Buffeted about during his short and stormy life, diseased and almost friendless, he possessed at his death only the clothes on his back, a bundle of letters and the pen which had won him a place in literature...
...advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...
...reflections were not so trile he might be considered as a keep and searching accountant. But four years of intense self-psychoanalysis has rendered the less emotional public rather weary of denunciations. Critics, capable and scornful, have taught the nation that its mentality and its aesthetics are less than dust, that everything worthwhile in this country is an importation, and that God loves the Irish, English, Russians, Germans, French, Spanish and Swedish--but not the Americans. Consequently the citizens of the much maligned and over advertised United States have assumed a rather nonchalant attitude; if there is no hope...