Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monthly technical magazine called Audio Engineering. Carefully checked with its author, Inventor S. (for Sidney) Young White, the story described the gadget, told what it could do, and suggested some aspects of its possible ultrasonic future-such as killing bacteria, breaking up suspensions of solid particles, precipitating smoke and dust...
...that when Bayside (and Mecca, too) are dust, that will be the thing Arabian shepherds will remember as they watch their lean flocks; it is the word a prince brought back from a teacher beyond...
...gusty wind, sweeping up from the Banat plain across the Yugoslav frontier, seemed to heighten the nervous tension in the town. It snapped at the shawls and embroidered blouses of the peasants, sent newspapers and political handbills scurrying around the huge square in clouds of dust. Slowly, the crowd gathered around the oldfashioned, three-storied brownstone hotel at the corner of the square. From windows the loudspeakers monotonously blared out the announcement: "At 6 o'clock, a meeting of the Freedom Party...
...down, then, Thomas Erskine, from those pedestals and canvases. Let us see and hear you not only as the eyes of genius knew you, but as your witnesses and judges saw you, and your London juries, whose affections you so often stormed. Let us see you panting in the dust and heat of the arena, see you as the great Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, so often saw you, as your clients . . . and so many others saw you when they listened, spellbound and enthralled, while you were championing not their rights alone, but the rights of all men who possess...
Weather. When horses' tails are large, when horses scratch themselves against trees or fences, when chickens or turkeys stand with their backs to the wind, when whirlwinds lift the dust on roads, rain is coming. A sunny shower means that "the Devil is a-whuppin' his wife." A mild Christmas means a heavy harvest, but "a green Christmas makes a fat graveyard." When a cat sits down with its tail toward the fire, the hillman looks for a cold spell...