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Word: dust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield, Little has the famous "Goal Dust" twins, fullback Lou Kusserow and quarterback Gene Rossides, along with wingback Johnny Nork and tailback Bill Olson. Between them, Rossides and Kusserow scored four touchdowns against Rutgers last Saturday to lead Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lion Football Team Hits Town Today | 10/1/1948 | See Source »

...only last week. Its aim: to contract with São Paulo coffee growers to spray their plantations against the deadly broca borer. Rockefeller's technicians found out that ordinary aerial spraying was missing the bugs, but that helicopters, hovering just over the trees and beating the chemical dust right down to the ground, could get them every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Good Works at a Profit | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Time has been unkind to the gold towns of Minas Geraes. Their old wealth is long since gone; the red dust of Minas cakes their half-deserted streets. But Aleijadinho's heroic monuments remain. Each year in mid-September, Mineiros rise from their huts and hamlets and journey by foot, by truck and by train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Pilgrimage | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Goal Dust Twins...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Lou Little Weeps, But Lions Will Still Field a Strong Team Oct. 2 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...autumn would End! If the sweet season, The late light in the tall trees would End! If the fragrance, the odor of Fallen apples, dust on the road, Water somewhere near, the scent of Water touching me; if this would end I could endure the absence in the night, The hands beyond the reach of bands, the name Called out and never answered with my name: The image seen but never seen with sight. I could endure this all If autumn ended and the cold light came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If Autumn Ended . . . | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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