Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acrobat!" shouted an enlisted man. Kicking and waving his arms as he fell, Sailor Nigel M. Henton, the training station's best gymnast, bounced on the hard-packed earth in a little puff of dust. Ambulances which soon came shrieking up were not needed...
...bull's front legs and some for his hind legs, and with this, the fed-up and disgruntled multitude commenced to throw cushions, empty beer bottles, bananas, oranges, etc., some almost nailing Pickett-and with the danger, noise, confusion and fatigue, Pickett released all holds and bit the dust instead of the bull's nose. The bull, fortunately for Pickett, also addled, made one vain pass at him prone on the sanded arena but was diverted from further attempts by the maneuvering cowboys; thus ended the humiliating scene, as regards Pickett's part of it, a grand...
...many years the Cathedral existed only underground. Since 1912 there have been daily services in Bethlehem Chapel which is one of three, in sturdy Norman architecture, burrowed among piers which will some day bear the weight of the 262-ft. central tower. These chapels began early to receive great dust. Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian but his widow had him interred in the Episcopal pile. George Dewey, Henry Vaughan (Cathedral architect), Bishop Satterlee and his successor the late Bishop Alfred Harding are in the chapels, in handsome sarcophagi. Last person to be buried there was Counselor Melville Elijah Stone...
...below last year's level. Alarms of crop damage due to weather upped the price to 60?. Next day similar reports failed to sustain the market. It slumped back to 58?. The third day prices climbed 3/4? and the fourth day 1/4? more on tales of dust storms in Kansas, delayed spring wheat planting in the Northwest. The fifth day the market went to smash, dropping to 56 1/2? per bu. Traders were jumpy at reports that the House of Representatives was about to abolish the Farm Board, thus throwing its 125,000,000-bu. holdings suddenly...
Springing the surprise upset of the rugby season so far in the East, the University team trampled the hitherto undefeated Tigers in the dust in the first meeting of the two rivals last Saturday in Cambridge. The game finished as a 15 to 3 victory for Harvard...