Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army doctors from Walter Reed Hospital have discovered a method for preventing Q fever, a pneumonialike disease spread by inhalation of dust contaminated by diseased animals. Oral Terramycin, given late in the 17-day incubation period after exposure, proved 100% successful in preventing disease symptoms...
Seventeen Crimson penalties and clouds of dust hit the Business School field yesterday, and the freshman lacrosse squad dropped its third straight contest, 12 to 3, to Governor Dummer Academy. The Governors picked up only four penalties in the contest. Jerry Pyle, Tag Edwards, and Bobby Hoen tallied for the Yardlings...
...week, sucking up the powder-dry top soil of southeastern Colorado, tossing clods and pebbles across the cracked farm lands of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, blasting at the withering roots of range lands through central Texas, and blowing on out across the Gulf of Mexico. Across the prairie dust clouds boiled up as high as 20,000 feet in the worst duster since the black days...
Within 24 hours the dust was gone again and the storm had passed into dry statistics. But beneath the deceptive electric-blue sky that followed, the haunting problem of drought remained-a problem hanging over an unhappy land, so different from the prosperous U.S. around it that it cares not a whit for the stock market, even less for the talk of parity prices and rigid price supports. The heart of the unhappy land is Edwards Plateau, a sheep-and-cattle-grazing area the size of Maine, in south central Texas. Here, day by day, month by month, through five...
...there is an element of sadism in the very requirement that a man shall work. 'Now you shall feel it,' they say. 'Now you shall know what it feels like to break stones and trim flags.' " Each is lucidly articulate about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes it as it is when it is at its blindest, not as it is when it is seeing most clearly." Sandemar, a world-roaming aristocrat among tramps, carries a slate...