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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drama in Europe, an able, authoritative, book. Women Against Men is her 14th book. Others: The Lovely Ship, The Voyage Home, A Richer Dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Woman Of It | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...Senate. Tabor spent $1,000 on a silk and lace nightshirt with gold buttons; he was swindled out of a fortune trying to buy as a present for his wife the jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor's daughter, said her laugh had the ring of a silver dollar. Tabor had her christened Rosemary Silver Dollar Echo Honeymoon Tabor. When the campaign for free silver failed, Tabor was ruined. President McKinley made him postmaster of Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Everyone knows that the setting sun looks red because man sees it through an earth-enveloping cloud of gas and dust With his cell and reflector Dr. Stebbins found the same apparent redness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star-Dust Man | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

stars and clusters near the central line of the Milky Way. Hence he reasoned that outer space must also contain an extended cloud of particles, gas or dust Measuring star distances by the strength ot the light they send earthward astronomers have failed to allow for the light's absorption by this cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star-Dust Man | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...Vagabond is no graduate-student blowing dust from books in Widener, but once in a while he wanders into the library. And recently in the stacks he became so interested in a subject he forgot that the building closed this year at six o'clock--at least until it was too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/14/1932 | See Source »

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