Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposed to work against viruses-but it has been working fine against the common cold, which is often caused by a virus. During the past few months, many cold sufferers who wouldn't know a virus if one sneezed in their faces have felt better after sniffing penicillin dust up their noses from little plastic inhalers...
...certain yet just why penicillin dust works on colds. But last week's Journal of the American Medical Association published a cautious and belated plug lor a treatment that has already become popular. A group of doctors who tried inhaled penicillin dust on 169 cold patients reported that it helped 80%. Often the patients' noses came unplugged and they could breathe more easily immediately after the treatment...
...Medford, where practice was held last year, horse hoofs have left a powder-dry dust ankle deep. The once well-cared-for track is now filled with jagged rocks and flat spaces come no bigger than the palm of your hand. The Cambridge golf course has proved too hilly, and to top it all off, Mikkola can't even find an adequate means of transporting his runners from place to place during practice...
...scheme of Faulkner's work, Intruder in the Dust is a key novel, his one book that offers a sign of hope that the South may yet extricate itself from the swamps of hatred and violence. Though not so structurally daring as The Sound and the Fury, nor so eloquent as Light in August, nor so sensational as Sanctuary, Faulkner's latest book is a better told and more firmly bound story than any of these...
Intruder in the Dust makes the reader work, it is not easy reading. But the reward is worth the trouble. It can be read as a detective story, a humorous idyl (a kind of second cousin to Huckleberry Finn), an outraged, descriptive exhortation to Southern society, a parable of modern life. It is also a triumphant work...