Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded, sleepless, dance-filled, dust-filled, wine-filled week of the festival of San Fermin at Pamplona is the climax of Spain's bullfighting year. Last week Spain's greatest season of the corrida in a generation came to a great climax. When the toro malo, the bad one with 21 painted on his side, lay dead in the sand, the aficionados had seen about all there was to see at bullfights...
...Arthur Conan Doyle would have enjoyed the trimmings. In his old age the author-spiritualist had deposited in the vaults of a little bank in the village of Crowborough, Sussex an old cardboard hatbox. For 25 years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This...
...money, and a spiritual malaise which the author believes to be at the root of Europe's despair. Most of all, they share a common paralysis of will power in the face of impending disaster. Their lives, Sartre writes, "had ... a kind of insistent futility, a smell of dust and violets...
...Besides, I don't like that dust that blows down off the mountains. Some people may think the mountains are beautiful, but once you have seen a mountain out there you've seen 'em all, and that's too many. Why, there's mountains out there that grass doesn't even grow on. Anybody who calls that beauty is nuts. We went West to find out for ourselves which was the best place. We soon found out. Nova Scotia is best...
Brewers, dentists, laundries and jewel graders have also made inquiries. A hospital hopes that the siren can be made to sterilize the air in its infants' nursery. General Mills would like to know whether it will coagulate the dust that plagues the packaging of its dry cereals. Cincinnati is ready for an immediate.demonstration of the power of ultrasonics to lay the smoke and dust for which that city is renowned...