Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloud of dust that is rising...
Unlike the naked moon, Mars has an atmosphere. It is very thin (probably equivalent to the earth's atmosphere 50,000 ft. above sea level), but sometimes small white clouds can be seen floating in it. Yellow dust storms rage across the Martian plains. The Martian poles show white spots, suggesting icecaps, that creep in winter down to latitude 50 degrees (equivalent to the latitude of Winnipeg), and disappear in the Martian summer. When the "icecaps" retreat, they leave greenish areas that resemble vegetation...
...been admitted to the National Institute of Arts & Letters but thinks little of some of his colleagues ("Those slobwogs!"). Last year, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony, unplayed for 36 years while the manuscript gathered dust in his barn. After receiving the prize, he granted a rare newspaper interview. When a reporter congratulated him, he refused to shake hands, roared: "Prizes, bah! What do I care for prizes! They are the badge of mediocrity...
Outside the enormous, white-domed Angelus Temple in Los Angeles last week, dust-streaked cars from two dozen states stood bumper to bumper. Inside, thousands of men & women, mostly middleaged, were having a wonderful time praying, singing or just looking. The national membership of the late Aimee Semple McPherson's Foursquare Gospel Church was celebrating its 25th anniversary...
...others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is murder and madness. The events, until the gold dust is lost by a seeming accident, have an inevitability that comes from the characters of the three men. Tim Holt plays the third, a straight role that bears the small romantic element of the plot. Only in his part and in the mental disintegration of Dobbs is there any over-playing...