Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappointment. A course that should be an exhilirating experience for mind and spirit is reduced to a bitter one by the stupidity of some tutorial person who makes out the questions--who cannot understand that he is dealing with a growing organism which needs light and air and not dust and ashes...
Photographers last week prepared to take huge, detailed pictures of Michelangelo's magnificent paintings in Rome's Sistine Chapel. Reason: the Michelangelos must be treated for chemical decay in the paint, damp air and dust effects, carbon deposits from the smoke of holy candles. The photographs will be used to check the restorative process...
Generations of Harvard men have wiped the dust from the platform of the New Lecture Hall and from the window recesses of Harvard 6 with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...
...drubbing in the second; Yale got away with a 3 to 2 overtime victory. Then the Elis laced the University Club skaters 1 to 0 and 3 to 1, whereas the Cantabridgians eked out 4 to 3 and 2 to 1 wins. The Hanover Indians have twice bitten the dust before the marauding Blue, but there were extenuating circumstances in the case of their frightful setback not so long ago. Ice just wouldn't freeze in Hanover in those days. Since then such matters have been remedied, the Green squad has been strengthened and Harvard will have a real...
...acknowledged prince of his adopted church, author of the "immortal" Apologia pro vita sua, is now little more than a dusty document, even, at Oxford University where his fame was brightest. Author May, sympathetic archivist, here takes out the dossier and with reverent breath blows off some of the dust...