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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to America as a friend of the working classes. British imperialism ought to crumble in the dust. I am out to work for a revolution and for the day when the workers will control the whole world. But before this comes you will have to face cold steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Poor Chap Shapurji | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...unreserved public domain remaining. Every ten or fifteen miles the deserted hut of some overambitious homesteader was passed. Every 50 miles or so was a little shack where gasoline could be purchased. Herds of wild horses watched the party as it passed, galloping away in a billowing cloud of dust if the automobiles paused. Running with one of these herds was a lone mule. Here and there lay the dismembered bodies of colts slain by cougars. Now and again a jack rabbit would scamper across the trail. Towards night the distant yelping of coyotes was audible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Public Lands | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

Play began. After the conventional eliminations of the first and second rounds, Williams crushed Borotra, and William Johnston, not without dust and heat, defeated Manuel Alonzo, the Flower of Spain. In that round Wallace Johnson came to his first test. He was bracketed against James Anderson, Captain of the Australian Davis Cup Team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Tennis | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...evidently knew that cartilage decays and that one would not want to enter the courts of Heaven without full facial equipment. It had a copper helmet, intricately carved and fitted with copper rods a foot long for the dead man's elaborate coiffure, long since returned to dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mound Builders | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

What humbles highlands into dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Itchen | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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