Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece of poetry which reappears most often is the line "The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when they sleep in dust." Its brevity must have been its biggest selling point. Various puritanical attitudes of life come out in this tombstone poetry...
...Manhattan's sleazy Stillman's Gym, where he trained, a place full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked...
...first 100% layman ever to head the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 16), Cincinnati Lawyer Charles P. Taft, looked like a fine new broom-and the cluttered house of U. S. Protestantism is thick with ancient ecclesiastical dust. The situation suggested a lot of house-cleaning ideas to sharp-tongued Magazine Writer Stanley High. Wrote angry Presbyterian High in this week's Christian Century...
...tutorial personnel and administration, the undergraduate is still bewildered by what has happened to this distinctive feature of Harvard education and disheartened by the prospects for its revival. Tutorial has become an almost forgotten cause, with the administration, faculty, and Student Council tacitly permitting the entire situation to gather dust. As it exists today, tutorial bears little resemblance to the overall effort that marked prewar guidance. The only hope for it lies in active blueprinting by the faculty, careful planning for the days when tutors will again be on the academic market and when the only excuse for the death...
Meanwhile, the committee, originally assigned to get the board rooms in the old Advocate building habitable, start a subscription drive, and plan one or two issues, has used the first week of the term to accomplish the first of their objectives, according to Watt. "Dust--about three years' worth--was the dirtiest part of it," he said after the big board room and the four smaller offices had been cleaned...