Word: dustless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have failed to anticipate its effects, which frequently are just as important. In 1899, a writer for Scientific American accurately foresaw the triumph of the automobile over the ,horse. He then made the mistake of adding: "The improvement in city conditions can hardly be overestimated. Streets clean, dustless and odorless would eliminate a greater part of the nervousness, distraction and strain of modern metropolitan life." A few minutes' application of imagination and arithmetic, putting together the collective impact of cars, people, noise and exhausts (even if many cars were then powered by steam or electricity), would have shown...