Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most phenomenally successful of any magazine issued before the Civil war was the prim Godey's Lady's Book. On many a U. S. attic shelf, dust-covered copies still remain. Recently a passing decorating fancy has gutted them of their faded fashion plates, which are used to lend a touch of quaintness to boudoir walls, breakfast trays and lampshades...
...death rate from inhaling coal dust may not be as great as the death rate from taking poison or being shot, but the discomfort and dirt caused by our very smoky city is visible on every hand. Ask those who come in contact every day with the nuisance caused by too much smoke. Ask the women folk, who know more about it and talk more about it than the males...
...hills on which he has carved his titanic conceptions. Not before Stone Mountain, Georgia (where he started the memorial now being finished by Augustus Lukeman) and Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota (where he is now engaged in excavating 420-ft. images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt), crumble into dust, can Sculptor Borglum be entirely forgotten. It should require at least 500,000 years for this to happen. It became known last week that the huge stone page of Mt. Rushmore is to be ornamented with a text as well as the Borglum configuration. The text is to be a 500-word...
Glidden Co. (Food division long rumored to merge with Gold Dust): $2,959,110 as against...
...Psittacosis is not to be confused with "hay" fever caused by dust from parrot feathers (TIME...