Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dust had grimed the dregs at the foot of the bottle, the fire was embers, Dawn reached rosy fingers to snatch back reality. The Vagabond shook himself, gazed at his empty lair, stretched in preparation for a new day. At nine o'clock he will saunter spryly into Sever 22 to hear Mr. Curtiss discourse on "Motion in Polar Coordinates," for Roger Bacon, first of the moderns, said "Mathematics prepares the mind and elevates it to a sure knowledge of all things," for in numbers lies the only Truth...
Jump-Off. On the tenth day, trial balloon observation showed that at 33,000 ft. the wind velocity had dropped, although dust haze hung high in the Himalayas. The expedition's leader, Air-Commodore Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes, who had led the party on its hazardous 25-day flight out from England and who won a bar to his D. S. O. in 1918 by bombing the Zeebrugge Lock gates from a nonchalant altitude of 200 ft., took the Puss Moth up once more at 5:30 a. m. for observation...
Pompeii: "No wonder God overwhelmed it with dust and ashes. I hope he'll do it again...
...story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices began to fall. The floor he was standing on bent gently up and down. An old Californian at his elbow said: "This is going to be a bad one." A cloud of dust began to rise through the stricken town...
...general style, the 1890 feeling of last autumn continues; there are Gibson Girl tiered skirts, dust ruffles, flared backs...