Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets that it misheard Rabbi Mann's benediction, delivered in Hebrew and English, but still thinks there was good poetry in the TIME version: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
...Goettingen should have come during the twenty-four hours when the whole civilized world German nation. No matter what one's political ideology may be, the Hindenburg has shown that many of the things which we regard as important and vital in life can flame up and turn to dust and ashes in a moment before a touch of the hand of the Unknown...
...with which the vast attitude is ending are as self-explanatory as cheeks marked by anguish or a hand that falls exhausted." Spain's last 300 years Ortega calls a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road of history." The sectionalism which has marked modern Spanish history, notably the movements for Basque and Catalan nationalism, have their roots. Ortega thinks, deep in the past. It took a strong Castile...
...spontaneous effort to overcome the temporal inertia of the Astronomy Department, an anonymous Yardling last week dug into the dust, which covers the numerous idle clocks of the Astronomy building. Of four installed in each of the two classrooms to keep students posted on the quartet of "times" used in astronomy, only one was going, Eastern Standard Time. Someone had forgotten to, or how to set the others...
...tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility for the storm, and a farm movement led by the girl he has jilted. He is shot by a dispossessed farmer,--but not killed; he repents, and will, of course, live happily ever after, with the girl...