Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the dust of my bosom...
...bills legislating it had been presented in Congress meanwhile. A bill drawn by Representative Wright Patman of Texas went into the House Ways & Means Committee, gathered dust there. Under the rules, no method of getting it out was possible except: 1) to have the committee formally report it out, or 2) to have the 218 Representatives sign a petition forcing it to the House floor. Mr. Patman circulated such a petition, failed by some 75 signatures to obtain his end. Many a Congressman who disapproved of the bill, afraid of the veterans' vote if he had to oppose...
...prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom had a criminal record. When the dust of research settled, Herr Lange's results seemed to show that Galton was right, though Galton had gone too far. Says Introducer J. B. S. Haldane: "An analysis of the cases shows not the slightest evidence of freedom of the will in the ordinary sense of that word. . . . Taking...
...delayed, attempts to obtain the bodies of fog-victims for autopsy), scientists could only guess what may have happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail of a dissipated comet."-Professor Victor Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. "Germs brought from the Near East by the winds which have carried dust from the Sahara Desert to Europe recently, producing muddy rains."-Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Wartime poison gas expert, chemistry professor at Columbia University, Manhattan. "I did not allude to the Bubonic Plague in speaking of the Belgian fog. I said pneumonic plague. I meant ... an acute respiratory infection attacking...
...rattle of hard corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...