Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black and white paint glistened on her freeboard and superstructure. Furniture that had gathered dust in warehouses from Sydney to New York was polished and reinstalled in her cabins, saloons and lounges. Decks and rails that had been pitted with the initials of some of the 765,000 troops the Queen had carried in wartime were scraped smooth once more. Spick & span in new uniforms, many of her old crewmen were back to serve again under jovial Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, the Queen Mary's chief officer...
...Plaster dust had chased out only one Claverly resident, a final check of figures by the Housing office revealed yesterday. With most of the plaster down and reconstruction beginning, the residents have decided to stay where they were rather than go to the trouble of moving...
Workmen are now shoring up the 54-year-old building which was discovered to be badly sagging several weeks ago. Although most of the plaster dust which caused the student protest has been removed in an intensive cleanup campaign, a thin layer still covers the corridors...
Students last night appeared satisfied with the prompt action taken by the Student Council and Dean Bender to remedy the dust problem and provide other rooms...
...other side. But there is another, far more important reason. The closed gate suddenly brings the hard facts of life and reality to the sheltered Harvard man. Faced with an unequivocal "No," he tries the next passage, and there he sees stark, unyielding rocks, and gets dust, from which he has always been hermetically sealed, in his eyes. On his right are men sweating and sometimes even cursing, and as he sits in Emerson A, perhaps the philosophy takes on new significance. Yes, a closed gate can sometimes mean an open mind, and that's a good thing...