Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dust on your old fedora for this is a week-end of revelry. When the Harvard Indian meets the Cambridge Johnnie on the Stadium battle ground, war whoops echo through the town. So after dusk on bean night trekle around the loop...
Crack! Thrown by the Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...
...When the dust had settled down the second day after the opening of the Freshman football managerial competition it was discovered, to the consternation of all concerned that only 8 Yardlings had reported. This represents the lowest turnout within the memory of the oldest inhabitant of Soldiers Field, and, in the opinion of attaches of Dillon Field House, constitutes a serious indictment of the spirit...
...COMMUNISTS BLOW UP ALCÁZAR! - NEARLY ALL DEFENDERS FEARED DEAD! An entire trainload of additional Red militia had arrived from Madrid to help the Toledo Militia swarm in over the ruins. To make the assault safer Red artillery poured a 15-minute barrage into the clouds of dust and smoke rising over the Alcázar. Then 1,500 militia led by four militia girls surged forward expecting merely to wade in White blood. As they neared Spain's West Point, suddenly and amazingly indomitable cadets poked the noses of machine guns from around splintered crags...
...long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal...