Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Indian captain Doug Brew won the race and scattered all previous records in the dust behind him, the Crimson's harriers won the meet yesterday afternoon...
...matter what he happened to be doing, he seemed able to doze off. He might be writing on the blackboard, and then, right in the middle of a sentence, collapse in a cloud of chalk dust for a nap. On such occasions, his pupils made the most of things. Sometimes they tied him to his chair; other times they would simply take French leave-firmly locking the headmaster in as they went...
...strains of Star Dust, played by the Melachrino Strings, wafted from the eighth-floor tower room at Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. An idle glassene oxygen tent was placed outside the door m the flower-banked corridor. Inside the room, the world's most important hospital patient rested comfortably and listened to the music. A week after his heart attack President Eisenhower was making steady progress toward recovery...
...found that the lake, which only a short time before was hard enough to serve as a playground for tanks, contained at least 4,000,000 specimens of one kind of shrimp alone. Bicycle Lake rarely holds water long enough for shrimp to grow to breeding age. One possibility: dust devils may have picked up shrimp eggs and carried them across the desert. Another guess: the shrimp may have survived, most of the time as eggs, since the period when the Mojave Desert had fairly permanent lakes...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 7--There was a fast rising cloud of dust over the Providence cross-country trail today as Crimson runners one after another ploughed through to a crushing victory. Coach Bill McCurdy's team posted an 18-71-74-79 score in its quadrangular meet with Brown, M.I.T., and Tufts, respectively...