Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the 15-inch refractor remains, though merely as a monument to the past, the meridian circle equipment has long gathered dust in an obscure store-room. In the meantime, astronomic investigation at the University, with the Summer House Hill establishment as control center, has assumed Herculean proportions, its activities diversified, its observation posts so scattered over the face of the earth that it may truly be said, "The stars never shine without the eye of Harvard upon them...
...many historical treasures that have been assimilated into the body of a great University, few have become as routine a part of undergraduate goings and comings as Hicks House. Far from gathering dust and receiving little attention save that of baedekering schoolmarms, this old Cambridge landmark is functioning today as a comfortable and busy library for members of Kirkland House. In the very place where idle upperclassmen now lounge in the midst of an 18th century philosophy collection," a forebearer of the Hicks family once slipped out of a winter's night to dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor...
...stepped a grey, bespectacled man with a grey, correct bearing. He carried a walking stick. In the lapel of his neat tan suit bloomed a flaming carnation. He fussily flicked a speck of dust from his coat, coughed with the conviction of a man swearing, and walked into the Foreign Office's cavernous hall for an interview with Argentina's suave Foreign Minister, Dr. Juan Atilio Bramuglia...
Last Puritan. In Detroit, Congregationalist Minister Albert Ziarko sued wife Zelda for divorce, complained that she smoked in front of parishioners, failed to dust his Bible...
...said. One of the figures on the floor rolled over, mumbled something that Vag could have sworn sounded like Barzilauskus, and opened one eye. Waving at him gaily, Vag slammed the window shut, cutting off the stream of cold morning air, raising a minute cloud of coal dust, and waking the other figure in the process. The Vagabond bounded into the bathroom, applied shaving cream, and, with worn razor blade, briskly began to scrape at his face. "Five hours to game time, and plenty to do," he mused...