Word: dust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Because TIME records all the news each week and at the same time manages to do usual so in a crisp, lucid manner without the usual dry-as-dust solemnity, I enthusiastically recommend it to everyone as the best magazine on the stands today...
Both pedant and scholar deal with the same materials. Their difference is in their methods. Both may be thought of as playing a game, with bones as counters. The pedant shuffles the bones about in the dust, toys with them, scrutinizes them under a high powered microscope, classifies them, and then leaves them--dry bones. The scholar goes through the same procedure, but before he quits the game, he breathes into his bones the breath of life, and from the dust of ages emerges a living idea. The scholar has connected them with life, and that vital connection marks...
...Calvin Coolidge, Honorary Moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, opened the Council's nine-day biennial meeting at Washington with an address (see Page 32, RELIGION). ¶ Dust-covered, in a grimy automobile, a Pennsylvanian drove through the streets of Washington and pulled up at the curb to ask directions. A determined-looking, agile little man, with the alert step of a New England Yankee, was walking by. "Hey, there," called the motorist, "where's the White House? Where's the Capitol?" The little man (Calvin Coolidge) appeared to be familiar with Washington geography...
...public fancy. The enfant gate of suburban London, the treasure of America must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright leaves while bastard epigrams evince a quick decay...
...Dust Fuel. The U. S. Department of Agriculture had a miniature device resembling a one-cylinder combustion engine. Into the cylinder was put a mixture of various kinds of carbonaceous dust-grain, sugar, cocoa, wood, even ground spices and cornstarch. When mixed with air and an electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked...