Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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January 12--Mr. Philip Drinker, "Dust and Health...
Many are the smoke, dirt, and odor "nuisances" which cause citizens to heckle corporations. Last week in Toledo one Herbert D. Widmer sued Toledo Seed & Oil Co., subsidiary of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., for $25,000. Charge: Castor bean dust released by the defendant's plant caused Plaintiff Widmer to contract asthma. Eagerly awaiting the suit's outcome are more than 250 asthmatic Toledans, some of whom had to drive into the country of nights to escape the castor bean dust before the City Council recently ordered the plant shut...
Righteousness, peculiarly Nordic chastity, and much bloodletting characterized the dime novels. At their worst they exhibited a style grandiose, bizarre, ornate; at their best they were active with verbs aplenty. They gave Russian and European pre-War children the idea that the U. S. was a land whose dust was completely bitten by redskins. At Manhattan book-auctions certain dime novels now bring between...
...scholar but as a personality. His most not able achievements, of course, have been in his research. But both in his books and o the lecturing platform he has demonstrated that if he digs deep for erudition he brings out the interest of his subject without the dust that has settled on his remote sources...
...whiskers" were formed by sulphuric acid fumes from lighting equipment, and stone-dust...