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Word: dust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep shadows had fallen where angels and sponsors used to tread. The Metropolitan Opera's 1,100 doors were shut tight. The stage lights (total power: 6,000,000 watts) peered purblindly down on bare boards. In the pit a dirty dust rag lay limply on the conductor's stand, in place of a score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Thundering Silence at the Met | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Blake and Bunyan, St. Augustine and Simone Weil. We respect but may not share his feeling that Christ himself once was with him and the BBC television crew on the road to Emmaus. His epigraph from George Herbert perhaps speaks most adequately for him: "O that Thou shouldst give dust a tongue to crie to Thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Bites God | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Coal Dust...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Harvard Scientists Study Apollo Moon Rocks | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...From a distance, the lunar soil samples look like light coal dust, but "half or more of the loose stuff is broken-up shards of glass," Frondel said yesterday. Individual pieces are actually white, green, brown or colorless. Besides these fagged particles, the researchers have found smooth beads of glass, shaped like dumbells, baseballs, and gelatin capsules, roughly a millimeter longer...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Harvard Scientists Study Apollo Moon Rocks | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...team of scientists, including Frondel, ran preliminary tests on the 44 pounds of lunar rock and then decided which specimens to send to each of the 142 investigators here and abroad. Most of the investigators have received about 10 grams of lunar dust so far and will pick up larger chunks of rock within a few weeks...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Harvard Scientists Study Apollo Moon Rocks | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

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