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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians' Captain Breaks Record, But Crimson Harriers Win, 21-38 | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Drowsy Headmaster | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Waiting | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shrimp in the Desert | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Country Team Beats M.I.T., Tufts, Brown on Providence Track: 18-71-74-79 | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

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