Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried on by a small group of nine persons, headed by a member from Poland. The advantageous feature of the Committee is that it can call upon the experts of all nations, just as it asked an Englishman and a Frenchman, specialists on tuberculosis and diseases resulting from dust, to inspect the conditions in the gold mines of South Africa...
...length he departed as abruptly as he had arrived. A few weeks later he appeared again and this time no one was home but the cook. He followed her into the kitchen and for two hours held forth on his favorite subject. Then he vanished in a cloud of dust. I doubt if Miss Wrest ever renewed her invitation. E. TREVOR HILL New York City...
Inevitably the great translator's biography is dry as dust. Born in French Flanders of bourgeois parents. Educated in the ordinary primary and secondary schools open to every child in France. Then four university years at Lille and Paris, majoring in English and graduating with a B. A. English instructor at a Paris lycée or high school. Marriage. Instructor of Phonetics at the Sorbonne. Much poorly paid writing of text books in collaboration with his wife. War. Served all four years as interpreter to a British artillery regiment. Then the great, unexpected appointment as Chief Interpreter...
...suspected might have caused the hayfever. One protein reacted positively. Stated Dr. Brown: "You have a parrot in your home." Patient snuffled: "Yes." Dr. Brown: "Get rid of the parrot." The patient did so and never after had stuffy head, running nose, red eyes. The irritating protein was dust from the parrot's feathers...
...Harvard University, scene of so many classic defeats, Old Gold bit the dust," notes The New York World in commenting on the recent cigarette test given a group of undergraduates. That New York editorial writer may have phrased those words with a great deal of subtlety...