Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to kidnap the Kaiser from Holland as a Christmas present for President Wilson; and Rogers Clark ("Bank On the South") Caldwell, high-flying Tennessee financier and promoter. Last November Lea-Caldwell enterprises, which were beginning to take the whole South for their province, went crashing down into the dust of Depression (TIME, Nov. 24). Last week it seemed likely that their financial crash would rock Governor Horton, their friend and ally, down into political ruin...
...will be lo-equipment will be installed. At the present time ten different telescopes are in use at the Cambridge station of the Observatory. For some of these a considerable gain in effectiveness may be obtained through moving to a higher altitude, and to a greater distance from the dust and light of the city...
...Kratch had many an iron in the fire; Notterdam's only one was the rod with which he ruled the great publishing house of Post, Gellatly & Jeaffreson. Cronies but always cantankerous, Notterdam and Kratch came to grips, almost to blows, over the House's policy. When the dust settled Kratch had left sulphurously for Europe, Notterdam had determined to buy out his partner, never see him again. Then things began to happen to Notterdam. . . . When not quite sober he had been persuaded to sign a long-term contract with an obscure author. He repudiated the contract. The author...
Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
...with five bays. Observe the massive and unnecessary piers, the inconvenient but orthodox side aisles, the lofty transepts bristling with sanctity above and serial catalogues below. Advance to the high altar-a $25,000 book delivery desk; overhead, admire the rood screen, of utmost complexity and facility at catching dust, which has been cleverly placed to hide the important library clock from view. See the space where the great apse painting is to go. (At the present time the painting has not yet been transferred from preliminary drawings, but the work is unofficially believed to represent two nude figures, both...