Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate fought President Coolidge to a standstill; and as the dust settles the result begins to draw interest. Without warning and without protest, John G. Sargent has been raised in a twinkling to the Attorney-generalship. Unexpectedly nominated and immediately approved by the Senate, he is already at work on his new duties. It is, indeed, a relief to find such harmony restored within the administration; but whence is this man to whose appointment there is no whisper of opposition? What is his past record, and what his qualifications...
...ended, for the loathsome billboard is going. The traveler must then confine his remarks to those queer flowers, that old house, or those funny people. On Sunday afternoons, when the clouds of gasoline smoke hide all these possible objects of observation, comments and curses must be reserved for the dust and the numbers of miles to the gallon. The art of conversation, which has been lagging since the days of Emerson and Holmes, seems about to suffer an extensive mutilation...
...series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds to be made. The minimum age was set at 120 years and the probable age between 200 and 400 years. The seeds were germinated and the plants are now growing...
...plays will stop. Mr. Raftery of the Telegraph says: "It should be something for the playwright to know that his or her play will be at least read and appraised. Many successful producers do not even employ a play reader. Their desks (many of them) are piled with dust-covered manuscripts that have never been read." It is the purpose of the contest to form a clearing house for neglected scripts...
...city would interchange pulpits for two weeks. My session gave that prayerful attention. We concluded unanimously that the time was 'ill-advised.' " Said the pastor of the other: "No, sir! I am not inviting any Modernists up here to give us any of their dry dust...