Word: dust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perpetual monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor whizzing into it at 40 mi. or so per second would not be retarded as it would be near earth, and burned to a "shooting star" and dust by atmospheric friction. At the moon, it flies on intact, strikes the moon with terrific impact. In a tenth of a second, the meteor is stopped, but it has penetrated two miles into the moon's stony crust. The friction of penetration heats the meteor to gaseous state, under such pressure...
...Little French Girl. Almost inevitably a popular novel will turn to dust in the grasp of the director-particularly a novel dealing with domestic psychologies of love, legal and otherwise, divorce and that sort of thing. The mother is in love with a soldier; he is engaged to someone else; the mother's daughter gets mixed in it all. Alice Joyce and Neil Hamilton assist with commendable performances...
...knew that his four-year secretariat in Northwestern University had furnished him with a practical background in pedagogical administration. He recalled three active years with Edward Filene of Boston in commercial research and organization. He well knew that, since 1921, he had spurred the Century out of dry-as-dust respectability to a commendable, if not commanding, place in the magazine field ; had buttressed the prestige of its editorial page with able leaders on large issues...
...light of a spiritual catastrophe, national to the country whose artistic potentialities are reduced by the loss, acutely personal to the immediate circle from which the individual has been withdrawn. Amy Lowell is dead. In her death American literature, undistinguished save for its pitiful cleavage to the dust of mediocrity, has lost one of its few bright lights of promise; and the thought of New England, and particularly of the University, has been deprived of an intellect whose power and originality were of a peculiarly rare and precious sort...
...that a mythical younger generation is about to invade the drama with guns, saxophones, poetry and (God save the mark!) Expressionism. I herewith depone that this is emphatically not the case. It is not so very long ago that the first trained elephant stepped proudly into the first saw-dust ring, but the art of entertainment as practiced by Mr. Barnum (as well as by William Shakespeare and Florenz Ziegfeld) is a very ancient art indeed. Nor has it changed so greatly...