Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard that another WTA crew, furbishing up for the forthcoming Democratic National Convention, was busy scraping down the bronze statues in City Hall Plaza to make them "look like new." Such treatment would remove the bronzes' cherished patina, which comes only from long exposure to atmosphere, rain, dust and pigeon droppings. Tearing off his blue smock, Sculptor Donato dashed from his studio shouting: "This time I am going to give them hell...
...thrills but should throw them into pleasurable fijits of suspense. After two murders with cannibalistic garnishings, it looks as if the natives are backsliding, but when Sleuth Lynch finds three dead flies under a dead man's face, he naturally dismisses that possibility. Altogether five victims bite the dust, a giant clam bites the hero, before Author Vandercook lifts the last shell, displays the elusive...
...gasping in torment, but brave as she moaned and whispered a pitiful challenge: "I won't die! I won't die! Oh, let me have my baby!"-all strength within me fled and I wept from helplessness and pity. Chilled by the memory of that scene of dust and anguish and a woman's tears, I find it hard to believe that a woman, to achieve her complete development, need endure as much. As I said, the matter isn't one in which I should interfere with my opinion, but I hope Dr. Nielsen will find...
...hundred ribbons of forest, each 150 ft. wide, each 1,200 miles long, each one mile from a parallel strip-stretching from North Dakota to Texas-such was the "shelter belt" that Franklin Roosevelt proposed two years ago to protect the dry edge of the prairies from dust and wind. Estimated cost of the project was $75,000,000. Relief funds were allotted, 20 nurseries leased to grow seedling trees, destitute farmers employed to plant them out. Some $2,900,000 has been spent on the project, 45,000,000 trees planted. Last February the Department of Agriculture asked...
...Derby, though bookmakers estimated that more money had been bet on the race than ever before, was the gloomiest since the War. The huge crowd-perching on the tops of automobiles or busses, milling about fortune tellers' tents in the central enclosure, raising a great grey haze of dust above the Downs-was less rowdy than usual. The glass-enclosed box, where the Aga Khan last year received congratulations from his King, was banked with flowers and conspicuously empty...