Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force which struck both sides equally hard last week was a hot, enervating, 35-m.p.h., dust-laden, southerly wind. Arabs have named the maddening wind khamsin (which means 50) because it seems to last for 50 days. Actually it subsides in less than a week, but if it blows longer than five days, tribal law provides no punishment for distracted Arabs who slay their wives...
...Star Dust into Stars. In great interstellar clouds of dust, new planets and stars are now being formed (Fred L. Whipple of Harvard). In the Milky Way system, in which Earth is one of the most inconsiderable planets, star dust and gas contain as much matter as all the known stars. To congeal into stars, these 1/250,000-inch dust particles would require more billions of years than the calculated age of the universe-were it not that gravitation and the pressure of light whirl the dust in cur rents and thus speed up its condensation so immeasurably that Whipple...
...only will the structure provide for the protection and preservation of the delicate volumes but the glass cases and lighted, dust-free stacks enable scholars and the curious to see for the first time the Harvard treasures. The fluorescent lighting and comprehensive air-conditioning system allow the books to be virtually out in the open...
...open-air wards of Bataan Hospital lie U.S. and Filipino soldiers, women, children, Japanese prisoners. Nurses sleep under trees, near fox holes, wash their own overalls, bathe in streams. Food is cooked on two old-fashioned wood stoves. All equipment is sterilized, but the thick Bataan dust is everywhere, and assistants must constantly flap fly swatters...
...discovered not the headboard but the coffin itself, forgotten and dust-covered in an attic. Thereafter he so stirred up the civic pride of St. Augustinians, even addressing the local Chamber of Commerce, that in 1940 the coffin was removed to a more seemly resting place in the Chapel of Nuestra Senora de la Leche, where in three months it was viewed by 16,000 tourists...