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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning the Special arrived at Cedar City and the party took a 130-mile automobile ride through Zion National Park. The roads were bad; the alkali dust and the heat were terrific, and the party on the whole was miserable. The trip was a " press agent" stunt for the park, engineered by Senator Smoot and the Union Pacific Railroad (according to Mr. Kent). According to Mr. Kent, also, Senator Smoot's complacent smile "was well calculated to raise the blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Anabasis | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...beginning of the fifth the visitors were ahead 6 to 3. Here every thing happened at once and when the dust settled at the end of the inning, nine hits, a base on balls, and five stolen bases had netted nine runs for the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN PLIES BAT TOO EFFECTIVELY | 6/14/1923 | See Source »

...average taxi, the average subway train from each of the contesting cities; it will be difficult to select a tournament ground where like conditions of traffic exist. But where there is a will, there is a way. The difficulties must somehow be overcome for to continue in England's dust would be intolerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INTERURBAN MEET | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...than begin with a piece of dirt and reason up.' Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, replied: 'If Mr. Bryan accepts the Biblical account he must begin with a piece of dirt and reason up, for it says, Genesis 11,7: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: May 5, 1923 | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

...years ago. One hundred and thirty-one years later the British again suffered a defeat, this time at the hands of Walter J. Travis, when, at Sandwich, he sailed away with the British Amateur Golf Cup. From that day to this British Golf has rolled America in the dust of British bunkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: John's Turn to Lose | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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