Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next stalwart to stride to the plate was aging, lecherous old Wilful S. Foulfellow, his eyes burning in the apricot sun. He could barely reach the plate. But he managed to lash a whistling bunt to the catcher. When the dust had died down Foulfellow stood on first, Pratt stood on second, and the henna sun stood...
...that Diego Rivera's picture for Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, The Crossroads, with Lenin uniting the workers, was "reduced to plaster dust." If that is the case, then it has been beautifully reassembled . . . for it can be seen in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City ... A sizable amount of "dust" to be moved about, or did Rivera paint the same mural again for our neighbors to the South...
...plants spew out a mixture of gaseous wastes containing about 800 tons of sulphur dioxide. As it rises into the air, the sulphur dioxide combines with water vapor and oxygen to form sulphuric acid. The minuscule droplets pick up more water and a variety of solid particles (e.g., soot, dust), until the City of the Angels wears, instead of a halo, a hat of dirty grey smog...
Eddie Stanky, in the on-deck circle, didn't even bother to dust his hands with resin. The Braves' dug-out bustled with the activities of men preparing to go back to work...
House athletes kicked the dust off their feet yesterday and stepped into the 1949 spring season as Eliot defeated Dunster, 7 to 4, and Lowell edged Dudley, 3 to 2, in baseball...