Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inflation reached the stage where even the weight of the lowly copper has been inflated? Or maybe you included the fog, coal smoke and dust, dirt and other elements that are present in the New York air, when you weighed your pennies [TIME, May 19]. Here in the Great State of Texas . . . pennies weigh only 138 to the pound; i.e., 70 pounds have a value of only...
...opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same belief-compelling recklessness...
White believes that ultrasonics has a brilliant future. Some possible uses: killing bacteria; breaking up suspensions of solid particles; precipitating smoke and dust; speeding up chemical reactions. The sound waves can also pull large molecules apart, turning heavy oils into gasoline. Last week, from Britain, came a report that the little waves may soon be used in laundering, to knock dirt from soap-starved British clothes...
...book that spends months travelling from India or Austria collects a lot of dust, and since Schoenhof's bookstore is full of foreign volumes, the air is thick and musty. In the labyrinthine passageways Mr. Paul Mueller and his ten assistants scurry around the great piles; people pop out at you from nowhere, and if you're looking for a book in anything but English you'll get what you want, even if letters have to go out to China. The firm's buying and selling with the whole world seems to have imparted a secret-service atmosphere...
Both these runners kicked up dust at second base last week, and both had a rough time of it as these pictures show. At Chicago's Wrigley Field (left), Cincinnati's Ray Lammano ran into the Cubs' Don Johnson and practically carried him on his back, thereby keeping Johnson from completing a double play. At Yankee Stadium (right), Hal Wagner of the Boston Red Sox made it. Hit on the head with a baseball, he was knocked out temporarily, and but for Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto's frantic leap might have been spiked...