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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Plains, N. Y., last week a grand jury indicted Westchester Airport Corp. of Armonk, N. Y., as a public nuisance, after months of complaint by residents near the field that dust filled their homes, forced them to keep windows shut tight even in hot weather. Authorities lately closed Atlantic Airways' field near Scarsdale, also upon complaints of residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Unwanted Airports | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...company of Northern Ohio's size and prestige. The base of the suit was the charge that the power company conspired to have an employe work for the bus lines, that this person "maliciously fomented trouble among the plaintiff's employes, placed quantities of carborundum dust and emery dust in the motors of various busses of the plaintiffs and put baking syrup in the oil pans, let air out of the tires of busses, placed tacks and nails in specially prepared molds at bus stops, all for the purpose of destroying plaintiff's equipment, interfering with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dust, Tacks, Nails | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...July) at 46½. (In Chicago last week saw dust was selling higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reverse Progress | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

When Howard Carter arrives in Alexandria he will find Professor Evaristo Breccia, director of the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, already probing in the dust beneath the Mosque of the Prophet Daniel, searching for Alexander's body. For 25 years Professor Breccia Pleaded with Moslem authorities for the privilege of digging, only last week received permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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