Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during lunch that an unwatched pan, bubbling over with boiling grease, ignited some coal dust in one of the flues and caused a cloud of smoke and a tongue of flame to issue from the roof over C entry of James Smith Hall. Simultaneously the kitchen and pantry filled with smoke and caused a huried retreat of chefs and maids...
...Chicago city council wants the Army-Navy football game next year to be played in its new municipal stadium. Secretaries Wilbur and Weeks are being solicited to obtain the necessary governmental consent. If Chicago gets its wish, another tradition will have bitten the dust, and a new precedent will be established whose end none can foresee...
...party policy. Although the average voter realizes that final compromise is inevitable, he likes to see his party stand four-square on every issue. Liberalism, from the very start of the political race, rides two mounts; and such a jockey is fortunate if he does not end in the dust...
...mother of all living." Now the only recorded children of Adam and Eve are Cain and Abel. Cain slew Abel. Mr. Shipman offers the following possible theories to explain the per- petuation of the human race: 1) Cain's wife was made, like Adam, from the dust or, like Eve, from her husband's rib. But Mr. Shipman "would see something grotesque in the idea of a Cain brought up through baby hood, childhood and youth to meet a ready-made bride." 2) Eve may have had daughters unmentioned in the Bible. But "for many years the human...
Monotony, Comfort. What did the U. S. observers on board think of their trip? They were Major Kennedy for the Army, Captain Steele, Commander Klein and Commander Kraus for the Navy. "Monotonous and comfortable!" said they. They were not seasick. There was no dirt or dust. They played cards. They listened to concerts by radio. They slept soundly. They ate mock-turtle soup and Hungarian goulash with fresh vegetables. They were very lonesome without a cigarette. They missed a little water for washing and they?upon arrival?did not like their wives and friends to see their unsightly three days...