Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer of a hermetically sealed box by a firm was vetoed by President Conant, because of the danger that lack of air might lead to chemical decomposition of the contents. But for the 1936 president who knows his chemistry, the 2036 president might ceremoniously open a box full of dust...
Almost unanimously, with the exception of a Winthrop House Biddy, who wouldn't give her name but is the one who does dust behind the pictures, Harvard stands behind Wally. With more show of patriotism than the State Department at Washington, they say they don't officially know whether she's even a citizen, Harvard emphatically wants an American queen...
...Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering the biology department gather much dust, few orders...
...significant about this present edition is its unquestionable authenticity and completeness. Texts of Boswell's "Tour to the Hebrides" are nearly as old as the tour itself, but until 1936 they have been shot through with omissions and corrections by non-Boswellian hands. Lying away in the grey dust of an old eroquet-box in Malahide Castle for over 150 years the original manuscript in Boswell's handwriting was accidentally bumped into a few years ago. At first sight of the papers, Colonel Isham, the discoverer, who happened to be just finishing the private printing of a nineteen-volume edition...
...been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles away. By night the glare of their floodlights keeps housewives awake in neighboring suburbs. Before next spring. Flushing Meadows will...