Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins removed his spectacles and wiped them clean of imperceptible dust. Ecomiums can be embarrassing and he had just received a $195,000 nugget of them from President Francis Patrick Garvan of the Chemical Foundation. The money was of course not for Professor Abel himself. It was to finance research on the cause of the common cold. But in giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold...
...Dust. A big rubber man of Indo-China was pinned under the playwright's microscope and allowed to squirm heroically into the blessed state of matrimony. Scourges of the tropics?heat, drought, insects, dust?add to his squirms. He passes an uncomfortable and highly monosyllabic evening. He is the strong & silent type of rubber...
Indianapolis' Postmaster. When the Klan squatted upon Indiana like a roc in a dust bank, one of the things its leaders promised would hatch out was a new postmaster for Indianapolis. So, when the term of Postmaster Robert H. Bryson of Indianapolis expired two years ago and President Coolidge reappointed him, Representative Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis went before the Senate Committee on Post Offices and objected. Senator Robinson of Indiana also helped obstruct Mr. Bryson's reappointment. Finally, last week, with Indiana's chief klansman behind bars for murder and the whole state in revolt...
...Pompeian artisan pounded a sheet of bronze into the shape of a reed pen. It served well for writing. Then Pompeii was drowned in Vesuvian dust and barbarians destroyed what part of Rome that the Romans themselves did not destroy. Men forgot metal pens...
...slow wind fumbled at her scarf and blew it back so that it stretched and flapped along the body of the car. Then the wind tangled its tassels in the spokes of a wheel. Abruptly and terribly the dancer who had carried a thousand light banners lay in the dust of a summer road, completely still, a red scarf pulled tight around her neck...