Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...omitted many a literary anecdote, many a bludgeoning blow against Americans and such "lesser breeds without the Law." And much was omitted from the book; eclectic rather than exhaustive, it was well titled Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown. Kipling was no digger of his own dust, and his book was intended as a monument, not an exhibition. But friends and enemies alike found in it something of both...
...sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows and wiping ceilings clean of dust. Ceilings in the Wadlow home are only a fraction of an inch above the boy's blond head. His bed measures nine feet. For breakfast he eats a dozen eggs...
...planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta, Ga., charging that it permitted planes to fly too low, endangering him. and annoying him by the dust they stirred up. He lost the case. And in the same year a similar suit was dismissed in Pennsylvania with the ruling: "Invasions of the air space are trespass only when they interfere with proper enjoyment of reasonable use of the surface." Last week another court decision on a similar...
...fine fettle last week was Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, acrid chairman of the Senate committee investigating railroad finance. Fortnight ago the Senator unearthed amid the yellowing records of the Van Sweringen empire and the dust bins of Guaranty Co. history one gem of purest ray serene. This was a memorandum written in 1930 by John Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond...
Still another question which it is hoped 1937 will uncover is that of the tiny dust particles floating through space, which account for many of the unusual qualities of light. They range in size from one ten thousandth of an inch to one ten millionth...