Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small-arms fire roared just ahead. I looked down the road. Our three tanks were snuggled close to a building just 100 yards away. Across the road, doughboys were crawling over the grassy meadow toward another group of houses, with bullets kicking up dust about them. Germans in the red houses were raining fire on those unprotected infantrymen. Here and there forms lay on their backs, not moving...
This new survey of our universe was made at the Harvard Observatory. If was based upon measurements which used the large amount of cosmic dust present in our universe as a basis. These clouds of dust had previously puzzled astronomers. The astronomers were unable to tell whether they were looking at a region barren of stars on the outer extremities of space, or whether the view was merely cut off at some intermediary point by the dust clouds...
...system used to overcome this difficulty was based upon the use of universes other than our own. Where these universes could be clearly seen, it was assumed that no cosmic dust clouds intervened. Thus accurate measurements could be taken. Partial obscuring of universes was also used to locate and chart the location of these dust clouds...
...with the grass in the Yard and the seconds on roast beef, another bright feature of Harvard bites the dust. C'est la guerre it says here...
...water to my burning lips; the mail truck driver with a chest cough that sounded to me like pneumonia, who nevertheless drove twelve miles out of his way to get a lost kid from Georgia back to his outfit; the girl from Oregon who was hanging curtains at a dust-smothered "basha" to make it look a bit like home to homesick boys; and the wounded from the landing beaches of Italy who, after the general had decorated 22 of their comrades, sang God Bless America, will stand forever on my list of the most religious men and women...