Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roots of this problem are as deep as our civilization. One often feels that the only remedy would be a series of drownings in sulphuric acid or of suffocations in library dust. Nevertheless, much progress has been made here at Harvard. The rules of distribution, even when most burdensome, do force the student to give grudging attention to fields other than his own. The tutors, if men of sufficient breadth, serve as an antidote to intolerance. Most valuable, however, is the work of the few professors who, being scientists, have a background of wide culture or who, as humanists, realize...
...Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer's elbows, Claudette Colbert's knees, Marlene Dietrich's legs. The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation's Press demands a look at the original. In desperation they dust off and beautify a love-loving chambermaid to fill their need. As the chambermaid happens to be impersonated by that sultry siren, Dorothy Hall, their task is not as difficult as it sounds. By the time the curtain falls, Messrs. Dunning and Schrank have ruthlessly kidded every metropolitan institution from...
Japan arms, in the news, and Harvard bites the dust of the Yale bowl...
...rhetorical questions while Professor Friedrich has not hesitated to state the problem succinctly in a recent Atlantic Monthly as follows, "A doctor must spend months on end bent over an evil-smelling carcass, dissecting it with his own hands" while a lawyer has to master the "dry-as-dust mass of legal lore which may be and probably is utterly repellent to his active, dramatic nature. Unless he possesses self-discipline, and a good measure of it, he cannot get his degree...
...That reminds me," she replied, "of the story about the lady who complained to her Irish maid that the dust on the piano was so thick that she could write her name in it. The maid," continued the biddy, "answered right back, 'My, the advantages of a good education...