Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five hours, as Gandhi's body was pulled through the streets of Delhi, Vallabhbhai Patel crouched on the funeral cart, his head bowed; not once did he raise it. Alongside, barefoot in the dust, walked Jawaharlal Nehru. Said Nehru: "I have a sense of utter shame...
...household chanted their leader's favorite Hindu song: "Dress yourself in rich attire, befitting the occasion, because you are now to go to your beloved's haven. You will have to lie on the bare earth, cover yourself with dust and ultimately become one with the dust. Have your bath and dress properly. Remember you are not to come back from where you are going...
...Into Space. Even as an apprentice astronomer, Hubble concentrated on the nebulae-the faint patches of light scattered among the stars. Some had been proved mere wraiths, irregular clouds of dust shining by reflected starlight. Others, more interesting, were globes, ellipses, open spirals like patterns of fire from great spinning pin wheels. When the brightest of these were photographed with powerful telescopes, they dissolved into vast congregations of faint stars, whose dimness suggested that they might be very far away. But astronomers, lacking a proper measuring stick, were not agreed. Some thought that the nebulae were comparatively near and small...
...surface of the mirror was transparent glass, still to be covered with a reflecting film of aluminum. Before this could be done, the glass had to be cleaned perfectly. The trick was to cover the surface with a "monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
When he took up sculpture, the plaster dust was soon ankle-deep on his studio floor, for Giacometti smashed almost everything he did. (He explained: "They were made to last only a few hours.") Sometimes his friends rescued a head or a torso or an arm. These won praise among the forward fringe in Paris and London, but not in his native Switzerland...