Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Understand." For two days of suspense, the Suchow commanders did not budge. Then the evacuation began. Along both sides of Suchow's main street -a broad expanse of cobblestones bisected by a barren dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black...
...Atomic dust clouds may have caused the recurrent ice ages in the past, Donald H. Menzel, Professor of Astrophysics, reported Saturday to the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences...
However, one thing is certain according to Mensel. The whole solar system is made up of enormous clouds of tiny dust particles. These are so minute that earthly observers would never notice them, and the world would still receive the same amount of solar energy...
Professor Menzel continues to point out that the hypothetical dust cloud which enveloped the earth was thicker at some places than at others. When the world passed through a thick mass of dust, the earth experienced fairly warm weather and the tropics probably flourished. Then as the planet passed into thinner areas, the earth would grow cold and led packs formed...
...backfield includes Gene Rossides and Lou Kusserow, Columbia's Goal Dust Twins, Levi Jackson, Yale captain-elect, and George Sella of Princeton...