Word: grime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round of speeches and fanfare, Mayor Fletcher Bowron tripped a switch that turned on the 392 burners. Billows of black smoke rose and drifted towards the nearby town of Inglewood; observers were drenched with oil droplets blown out of the burners before igniting; automobile windshields were spattered with grime...
...weekly heap of dirty clothes is a problem that varying Harvard men solve in varying ways. Some carefully pack their laundry in neat cardboard cases, lug them down to the Post Office, and then spend weeks in squalor and grime waiting for the return mail. Other pile their clothes in the washbasin and alternately serub and sneeze until a dazzling brightness is attained. But most undergraduates shoulder or dispatch their wash to Cambridge laundries which charge up to $18 to fray cuffs off of shirtsleeves...
...famed atheist, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. It took him seven years to write the novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain-stained cedar rafters, a dark, low ceiling. His wife feared that the lamp burning in the window made him a target for Billy the Kid's bullets-the Kid had now turned against...
...attempt to deny this fact, the bureau last year found seven students who claimed they wouldn't mind any amount of grime for a good job. They were sent to a factory in Lowell which offered quick advancement. The promotions were not forthcoming at the end of the week, but it didn't make any difference since none of the seven had stuck it out that long...
...Holzworth, identified in Who's Who as a lawyer and big-game hunter, offered $12,500 for the lot. The auctioneer promptly canceled all previous bids in favor of Holzworth's and shut up shop. But next day Gustave Doré's paintings were still gathering grime in the warehouse. As a final twist, which Balzac might have appreciated, Collector Holzworth was arrested, charged with passing phony checks...