Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love of Italy, my worship of memories, my aspirations toward heroism, my presentiment of my country's future ? they are all revealed here in every line, in every note of color. Here, too, are my books, not kept to collect dust, but as living entities, and perhaps no solitary student has ever had so many. As death will give my body to my beloved Italy, so let me be permitted to preserve the best of my life in this offering to Italy...
Treatment of air is not a new process but it has developed widely only in recent years, and Carrier Engineering Corp. has led the movement. Air-conditioning involves washing air, freeing it of dust, adjusting the humidity (lowering it in summer, raising it in winter). Provision is also made for warming or refrigerating the air. The biggest users of conditioned air have been places where many people gather and those industrial plants in which the atmosphere must be just...
...investment trusts. Although a new management-which includes Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp.; William Frye Cutler, vice president of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.; Clarence Dauphinot, president of Frederick H. Hatch & Co.; Philip De Ronde, president of Hibernia Trust Co.; George Kenan Morrow, chairman of Gold Dust Corp.-has taken hold of Prince & Whitely Trading Corp., the situation indicates that this form of financing will continue to decline in popularity...
...criticizes the system of tariff adjustment and refers to it as proceeding in a "haphazard and irresponsible fashion." "To give the farmers higher duties on swine, corn, and meat is a continuation of the old process of trying to throw dust in their eyes." "One is often led to suspect that the pervading process of log-rolling and swapping has ended in changes which some particular domestic interest and its Congressional representative had at heart...
...customary clarity of mind as the henchman of the great god Accuracy was in no small degree shaken last evening by the news that in my former haunts in Formosa 86 head-hunters bit the dust at the hands of the Japanese forces, and that no end of my former brethren ended their term of service on this earth...