Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably exceedingly good; but my mind soon did wonder of other things. If truth be only to see things as they are-which be its business I am told-and hath no care for how things ought to be, then the poet doth err: Truth is ugly; common; dust. It be no pursuit for one who hath in his heart the improvement of man. Indeed, if this be true, what doth one gain to seek the truth if it doth not lead to more than the impassive real. Better an illusion to raise man up than a truth which doth...
...Honolulu Undertaker Jacob K. Ordenstein directing operations, nuns, clergy and officials stood by the grave, watched its concrete top cracked away, the plain coffin exhumed. Because there was no longer any danger of spreading Bacillus leprae, no need existed to sterilize Father Damien's mouldering bones and dust, according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains were flown back to Honolulu, where they lay in state. Aboard the U. S. Army transport Republic, the coffin was to be carried to Cristobal, C. Z., transferred...
...subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Last week Rinehart & Dennis were putting in last licks on their tunnel. But many a man who began the digging in 1929 was not alive to see the finish in 1936. Some had died of silicosis, incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. Pneumonia and tuberculosis had caused the deaths of others who may or may not have been suffering with silicotic irritation...
Gaunt Philippa Allen, social worker, testified: "Dry drilling was the cause of the dense silica dust. It would stop when State mine inspectors entered the tunnel. Men acted as lookouts to warn of their presence. As a result inspectors testified that the tunnel was practically dust free. Mrs. Charlie Jones of Gamoca was the .first to find what was killing the men." Mrs. Jones, according to Miss Allen, begged money along the road to pay for x-rays of the lungs of her son Shirley who asked on his deathbed to "be opened up to see if I didn...
...have to hide from the sleeping shack "rouster" to avoid being forced back into the tunnel. As to economics he testified: "By the time we bought three meals a day and a pint of moonshine the $3 was gone. The men bought the moonshine to cut the cold and dust off their lungs...