Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rembrandt's wonderful light has been revealed glowing beneath the dust of centuries, a famous panel lost for nearly 400 years. It was part of a sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they...
...over an area of even one square mile, an amount which would be negligible in an arid region like Ari- zona. Widespread drought is due to lack of water in the air, and obviously no device can bring down what is not there. Proposals to cause precipitation by sprinkling dust particles in the air to condense the moisture are futile, say the Washington experts. It is admitted that small amounts of moisture can be precipitated by special equipment in laboratories, but no means is yet known of producing such effects on a large scale or of otherwise affecting atmospheric...
Community Book Shop, as agents for The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, have an attractive proposition to offer those who would like to shake the dust of this arid country from their shoes for a short while and dwell under the British flag in pursuit of the well-known happiness...
...famous plagues of history,--the swarms of files which soured Egyptian tempers, the campaigns of the African ant-armies, the rats of Hamburg which the Pled Piper charmed with his pipe. But these pale before the contemporary radio plague. It has swept the country, closed the family phonograph, put dust on the family piano. No Pied Piper has come forward to charm it into the ocean so a radio council has gathered at Washington to control the tyranny...
...Ruhr, and follow a "constructive policy" against Poland. If they only could be successful in occupying Berlin and setting the program in motion, the world might see French and Polish soldiers shaking hands in Berlin and the last of the Monarchists, who now pester Germany so much, kicking German dust off their heels. But the possibility of success is negligible. The Centrist and Democratic presses have warned against taking this movement too seriously. It is conceded to be more of a gesture on the part of the Socialist government to show the world what terrible things France is doing...