Word: dusts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relegated civilization's sociological structure to the trash heap as unusable lumber and connived, catered, kowtowed, begged, pleaded, and promised anything & everything within and beyond their means to the so-called underworld, if the cowardly machine-gun order returned their child, they trampled respect for law & order into the dust; exposed other citizens' children to the possibility of kidnapping and ridiculed American police protection in the eyes of the world. In the greatest crisis of their lives they failed...
...companies whose shares have been listed for some time have not complied even to (.he new custom of reporting quarterly? Most of the non-compilers report only once a year. Sales figures are reported monthly by chain stores. Cigaret companies do not give them. Standard Brands and Gold Dust do not, Borden Co. does. The biscuit companies report only profits while the rubbers give, their sales. Lambert, Drug and California Packing are among many of the miscellaneous concerns not giving the. figure...
...Naval Observatory signaled "Go." Lieut. Brown pulled his switch. A strip of rocky earth a mile long by 200 ft. wide heaved up slowly, settled with roar and dust. At the distant earthquake observatories, the seismographs registered faint squiggles. Thus man knew that he had shaken the earth, made it quiver, trifling though that quiver...
...they find there way into the tar barrel along with the charcoal sheet? They might, And anyway does a noose around the neck convey the full meaning of Lowell House? So rumour has it that there may be a bauble cast in deathless bronze which neither moth nor dust can corrupt, something a little distinctive on the watch chain. But this is only rumour and Harvard must wait until at last Lowell House will find some charm...
...million years only. From all these facts we infer that probably the age of our universe does not differ very much from the age of the solar system, and that not very much more than 3000 million years have elapsed since the spiral nebulae, the stars, and the star-dust (the meteors) were born out of the original parent system, which we call chaos because we do not know much about...