Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago, retreating Chinese turned and drove an advance column of 10,000 Japanese, under famed little Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, "Lawrence of Manchuria," into a bottleneck area between the broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped Japan's "Lawrence" pull the cork out of the bottle...
...Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round 1, France had made the best showing, with five out of eleven candidates...
...windpipe and its branches (bronchi and bronchioles) are covered with fine, threadlike filaments called cilia, which continually move, waving their tips with an upward motion. When bismuth powders or pulverized lead glass were blown deep into the lungs of anesthetized cats, Dr. Barclay and his associates found that the dust in dry form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from the base of the lungs up & out. The movement...
...fist of anti-Christ." Cried he: "Where now are Herod and Pilate, Nero and Diocletian, and Julian the Apostate, and all the persecutors of the First Century? St. Ambrose replies: 'The Christians who have been massacred have won the victory; the vanquished were their persecutors.' Ashes and dust are the enemies of Christianity; ashes and dust are all that they have desired, pursued-perhaps even tasted for a short moment-of power and terrestrial glory...
...Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian art and Egyptian writings, a little more dust is shined off the dynasties...