Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's seven million dollar library may have to be lighted and aired artificially, the clock may be obscured by a dust-collecting rood screen, and massive pillars may occupy most of the floor space, but that it "inculcates the lie in the young student" or makes it impossible for him "ever to learn a true thing in any institution such as this" are declarations which show more naive fancy than common sense. These are only a few of the bitter condemnations of the Yale library's architecture made in the current issue of the "Nation...
...market building fell like a house of cardboard, burst into flames. Water mains burst in the heaving streets. Towers of brownish adobe dust sprang up as buildings tumbled right and left. In six seconds it was all over. All was silent except the groans of the dying, the crackle of the flames...
...Arriving in Managua, he took charge of the Marines' fire-fighting detachments. There was no water, no fire apparatus. Dynamite was his only weapon. Marine squads blew up a ring of houses round the blaze, fought the creeping flames with spadefuls of earth and adobe dust...
Laggard's Withdrawal, Far behind the great motor companies, partially obscured by their dust, the laggards of the industry in vain attempt to overtake their competitors. Last week one of these laggards drew to a halt, abandoned the race. Stockholders of Gardner Motor Co. Inc. were asked to approve the complete liquidation of their company...
Robert W. Jameson, executive vice president of United Cigar Stores, was made a director of Gold Dust Corp...