Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whitlock had wiped the dust off Dudley's hidden potential, ad the commuter responded by unleashing his feeling of independence and spirit. A vote taken by the Student Council in the Spring of '53 revealed that 223 students preferred membership in the Commuter's Center as opposed to the seven who wanted non-resident membership in the house system. And only three selected a renovated Dudley over the choice of an entirely new center...
...kind of sandpaper that flexed without cracking or shedding the abrasive. It was followed by a waterproof "Wetordry" sandpaper that was an instant success in the auto industry; for the first time carmakers could wet surfaces to be sanded or polished, thus eliminating heat and dust. In 1930, 3M brought out Scotch tape, and started a new industry. The tape replaced pins, string and glue, was put to work mending, sealing packages, insulating wires, masking paint jobs. Today 3M gets 35% of its total sales from Scotch tape, including Scotchlite, a reflecting sheeting coated with tiny glass balls and used...
...that led to the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy. It is the first biography of Diderot to appear in English in three-quarters of a century, and it is a good one. Author Lester G. Crocker, a Goucher College professor and former movie writer, knows how to blow the dust off his subject, and bring both an 18th century personality and his ideas to life...
...police got nowhere in their inquiries. Instead, reverent Rajasthanis thronged into Jodhpur to pay homage. By week's end 100,000 people had visited the tramped-out fire, some kneeling to scoop the dust, now sacred, into their mouths. "It was a great and noble act of suttee," observed one of Sugan's male relatives. "Her name will long be remembered...
...ring is not made of dust particles like the rings of Saturn; it consists of hydrogen whose atoms have been ionized, i.e., broken into protons and electrons. The ring as a whole is electrically neutral since the amounts of positive protons and negative electrons are about equal, but the protons (for complicated reasons connected with their greater mass) move faster. This makes the ring, in effect, a current of positive electricity flowing around the earth...