Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to the world outside the higher academic cloisters about the accomplishments of Harvard's General Education. Publicity-wary as the University may rightfully be, the new program must be given wider currency if the part of the faculty report on secondary education is to collect fingerprints instead of dust...
...lofty plateau of Mexico the rains had begun to fall. They heralded the end of the dry season and of the dust clouds raised by the afternoon wind from the cornfields and the green rows of the maguey. At Balbuena Airport, aerologists scanned their weather charts, for next week Miguel Aléman, 47th President of Mexico, will board the Sacred Cow to fly north on a friendly visit to Harry Truman, his guest last month in the ancient City of Mexico...
Farther along Nankwan a black-gowned merchant, Fan Kuang-kua, and his apple-cheeked wife have a counter full of cigarets, wooden combs, runty potatoes, homespun towels and dust-cloths. Yes, says Fan, the Communists had posted many signs and slogans along this very street. Yes, they had been anti-American-they had said Chiang Kai-shek was trying to sell China to the U.S. What does Fan believe? "I understand little of this," Fan says. "I am just lao pai hsing...
...Aside from dysentery and minor skin diseases (e.g., heat rash) and eye troubles (from dust and sun glare), the troops were notably free from disease. There was no heat stroke, little malaria...
...Under Secretary of State Will Clayton would go to Geneva with congressional permission to cut U.S. tariffs up to 50%. The U.S. could discuss concessions on as many as 3,500 different items, including abaca, Bibles, goat meat, curling stones, unbleached teasels and zinc dust. Despite some worried special interests at home, Clayton had as clear a mandate to "take the expansionist way" as a U.S. Congress was ever likely to give...