Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smust-a combination of smoke and dust...
Harvard's rare books and manuscripts have not always been in air-conditioned, dust-free splendor. John Harvard himself began the collection with a gift of "400 books to the Small college in new Cambridge." Stored in Harvard Hall, the books were safe until a free broke out one January night in 1764. A few books in circulation escaped the fire, but the only present-day survivor from that original library was a copy of John Downame's Christian Warefare Against the Deuill, World, and Flesh. A certain Mr. Briggs had fortunately failed to return the book...
...detail from Malskat's forged work. Lübeck winced as Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside the church. Only scattered patches of the original paint remained, said Malskat, and "even that turned to dust when I blew on it." Malskat decided to fill in the blank walls with pictures of historical figures, schoolmates and local laborers, modeled figures of the Virgin based on photographs of his sister and former German Movie Queen Hansi Knoteck...
...effect of the committee's action was to throw up such a legal dust storm that the air may never clear, thus forcing both Dixon-Yates and AEC to cancel the contract. The Democrats say that the previous committee had no right to grant a waiver while Congress was out of session. Thus, by rescinding the waiver, the contract is right back where it started and must now lie before the Joint Committee for 30 days...
Developments that would have a long-term effect went almost unnoticed. Several advanced standing students were already residing in the Houses under the new plan, and the maids had deserted Lowell and Winthrop. The general reaction was that the student porters didn't seem to care much about the dust but did a good job otherwise...