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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the change of the administration of the Germanic Museum has come a change in policy which is greatly to be commended. Formerly the museum acdontarily collected dust. It's huge plaster casts of bronze monuments throughout Germany, casts which Kaisar Wilhelm presented to the University when he was currying favor in America, rested undisturbed. Countless architectural photographs, dull and uninteresting, lined the walls. Only people attracted by the extraordinary beauty of the building itself ever returned to the museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GERMANIC MUSEUM | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

...there is too the Vagabond. There is little enough for him to do. No lectures, few concerts; only the library, vast, dust encrusted, darkest Widener. It is a dreary period for him. But what can he do, what can anyone do? The Vagabond will take refuge in poetry "for God he knows and what must be, must be." He like the others must hitch up his belt, try not to think too much of the Vincent Club, and "say neither it is good, nor it is bad; but only it is here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/19/1932 | See Source »

...dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outfit | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...Sunday newspapers and claiming the world's largest circulation (6,036,686). If, as often happens, not enough miracles, scientific discoveries, prince-&-chamber-maid romances occur to fill its pages, Editor Morrill Goddard and his staff retreat to a nearly inexhaustible morgue of fact & fable, dust off old material as fresh offerings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fish Story | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...about got the farm paid for, in came City-Man Lynn Clayton who had inherited some deserted coal mines next door. The outlander, financed by his friend Lida Grant who came with him to watch his operations, planned to make coal-bricks out of the deserted coal-dust, sell it to the city's poor. His meat was Glen Hazard's poison. First he ordered the Lanes off the company's property. Chad hung on. Then Clayton cut down the woods to make streets for the modernized town that was to follow his coal-dusting activities. Vesper, Chad's young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homespun Tale | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

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