Word: grime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian-born Explorer Kaulback, Tibet is no hermit kingdom, but a realistic Shangri-La whose glacial rocks, shrewd lamas, innumerable prayer-wheels, odoriferous grime somehow delight his Cambridge-bred soul. He had been to Tibet once before and was glad to get back: "It was good to taste real buttered tea again. ... We ourselves were awash by the time the tents were up. ... That night it was just as it had been two years before. . . horsebells jingling; the howl of a dog; a voice in the distance singing a mournful song; and over everything the smell of wood smoke...
...romantic version are Author Bernard's descriptions of Tibet-a more spectacular Arizona-and of magnificent Tibetan handicraft and art works. But even realists are likely to gag at his matter-of-fact details of Tibetan life: of monks who take special pride in a lifetime's grime that encrusts their golden robes; of communal toilets in open streets; of Tibetan burials, in which corpses are coiled as at birth, then hacked to pieces and fed to vultures...
...dust or dirt, no speck of grime...
...about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three-fourths of that cost goes for distribution. If it were consumed on a vast scale in factories and homes the cost would be diminished to a point where few people could afford not to use it. Then U. S. grime would be localized in the mining centres which would send out not only fuel by pipeline but electric current by long-distance superconducting cables...
Since Depression no opera night has been so brilliant. Standees, in line for hours, found the old house with its face washed clean of grime, its lobbies sparkling with new chandeliers and trimmings. Box-office attendants were jubilant because the house was once more sold to the doors. Downstairs, subscribers were enjoying the new upholstered chairs, and a new $250,000 lighting system was at work backstage...