Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this tragic inning, the Freshmen forged ahead, playing airtight ball. In the fifth, Tom Bilodeau dug his spikes deep into the dust and hit a ball towards the south-west end of Soldiers Field which bounced once on the ground and hit the side walls of the Stadium. All the old veterans of Harvard baseball claimed that it was the longest hit which had been knocked out for a decade...
...over the Puritans, which by the way, didn't come until the much inning. Professor Whitney. Master of Kirkland House, Mrs. Whitney, Douglas V. Brown, former Head Tutor, suddenly trundled into sight on a flock of bicycles. After cheering on the team they left in a cloud of dust to pay a visit to Professor James Thayer Addison, Acting Master of Kirkland House last year...
...which had also stipulated that the winning drama should be pre-eminent "in raising the standards of good morals, good taste and good manners." Last week the award of the Pulitzer Prize, which may not raise the national dramatic level but can usually be counted upon to raise a dust cloud of national controversy, ran true to form. Taking advantage of advance press releases, gabby Walter Winchell jumped the gun a full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant...
Chicago, May 13--A great cry of joy and relief went up from farmers today as rain settled the dust...
This is a reductio ad absurdum not only for common sense but for the theory of Relativity. Timidly at first but more boldly of late, some astronomers have suggested other possible causes for the redshift, viz. cosmic dust scattered through space or a slowing of light's velocity after millions of years of travel. Once as fervid a believer in the expanding universe as Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. Hubble was ready last week to admit that it might be an illusion. "The cautious observer," said he wryly, "refrains from committing himself to the present interpretation and employs the colorless...