Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early days, A. S. P. C. A. devoted itself to such matters as the ruthless over-crowding of calves and cows in shipment, the plucking of live fowl, the mixing of marble dust in horse and cattle food as filler. Nowadays such societies are busy with such diverse matters as inspecting poultry markets, removing injured animals in ambulances, extricating stranded cats from trees...
...concentrate. At least every time I look hard at a lecturer and try to absorb what he is saying, I go to sleep. The other day I got out of a nine o'clock at a quarter to two, and then only because the janitor tried to dust off my feet. And now with the first November Hours coming the twentieth of October, and with me asleep half the time, I'm worried. Things are so bad that I even go to sleep in tutoring school, and they haven't any janitor there. And I do so want to stay...
Plodding wearily along at a snail's pace on the road that winds through Spanish hill-country were two travellers. Dust-caked and grimy, leading by the halter an aged nag, heads bowed, and pace ambling, the pair presented a picture of human dejection in the golden rays of the afternoon sun on that highway leading from the nation's capital to the borders of France. It was obvious that some blows had been dealt the men's fortunes, for every movement in their demeanor was a sign of discouragement, disappointment, defeat...
...Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula...
...Divorcée Post's opinion on divorce 30 years after: "The epidemic of divorce which has been raging in this country for the past 10 or 15 years must be rated with floods, dust-storms, tornadoes and other catastrophes...