Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold camp of Fairbanks in the interior also enjoys a boomlet. Most of its streets are lanes of thick dust; a third of its homes are sagging log cabins; caribou wander disconsolately in its outskirts. But 7,500 people have jammed in where 3,500 lived before, and more are coming every...
Scientists do not agree on the causes of these fluctuations. One theory: the sun's radiation may vary at different periods. Another: the sun may have drifted through belts of cosmic dust which kept some of its rays from reaching the circling planets...
Weather experts say the unusual weather in 1816 was caused by great volcanic eruptions from 1811 through 1815 which supposedly exploded so much dust and ashes into the upper atmosphere that the warmth of the sun's rays was seriously diminished...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
Great clouds of dust rolled in with blistering heat from the Rajputana desert and hung over New Delhi this week. Outside the Viceroy's House hundreds of heavily armed British and Indian troops mopped their faces, sputtered and coughed. Inside, around a huge table in the viceregal study, India was being divided...