Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nassau St. between the years 1868 and 1915 was a long, ill-lit, barnlike room jammed with rolltop desks, littered with paper, its walls smeared with grime and dirt. When the presses pounded on the floor above, a thin downpour of dust floated over the room. Grimy wires and rusty old hooks used by gymnasts when Tammany Hall had occupied the building were suspended from the ceiling. A tortuous circular staircase led to the room, up & down which ambitious young reporters used to trudge: Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, David Graham Phillips, Edwin C. Hill, Will and Wallace Irwin, Walter...
...Baker Eddy, Mrs. Miki Nakayama. She received her God, preached his doctrine that man is created for Happiness. She wrote psalms, performed cures. Like Mrs. Eddy (but some 30 years before her) she preached that disease is illusion. She warned her followers that trouble comes from eight kinds of "dust" which must be cast away: coveting, grudging, passion, hatred, enmity, fury, greed, haughtiness. In 1887, aged 89, Mrs. Nakayama "ascended into Heaven." Named Tenrikyo after the town where it centred, her cult flourished, first under official control, later (since 1908) as an independent Shinto sect. There...
...little else had been ascertained last week. The spot seemed to be enlarging- 8,000 mi. across-which to some astronomers suggested it might be a cloud of dust kicked up by the impact of a huge meteorite. Others thought that, since the spot was observed to rotate precisely in the schedule determined for the planet by the late Professor Asaph Hall (10 hr. 14 min. 24 sec.), it could not be a drifting cloud, might be a volcanic eruption in a fixed area. To still others a volcano on cold Saturn seemed hardly more imaginable than spontaneous combustion...
...disturb the dust; it gets in peoples eyes and often makes them sneeze. (Name withheld by request...
...work was hindered in Cambridge by the number overcast nights and imperfect atmospheric conditions resulting from dust street illumination, smoke and uneven heating of the air. It was then decided to erect a new station for their work here in the Northern Hemisphere. This new station is located at Harvard, Massachusetts, at a place called Oak Ridge about 27 miles north-west of Cambridge...