Word: grime
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...help pay for her last year at Cornell. Using a secondhand lea Reflex with a cracked lens that her mother had bought for $20, she shot campus scenes and sold them to students. Her early reputation was made in the unlikely field of industrial photography. Where others saw only grime, Bourke-White saw beauty; her camera could find drama and action in a factory. All the major pictures in FORTUNE'S first issue were by Bourke-White, and she was one of the four photographers on LIFE'S original masthead (the others: Alfred Eisenstaedt, Peter Stackpole, Tom McAvoy...
...tomb of the League of Nations and now serves as the United Nations' European headquarters. This activity on the part of the Swiss has raised once again an interesting question: Should the U.N. make Geneva or some other city its worldwide headquarters to escape from the grime and crime of Manhattan...
...struck by the vigor and passion of the founding fathers as they debated the course of the new nation. But he was also impressed by 'the underlying calm of those remarkable men' as they grappled with the monumental task of writing a Constitution in the dust and grime and heat of Philadelphia in the summer...
...decline of enzyme pre-soaks has put a damper on the manufacturers' profits. They are even more concerned about the rising clamor over phosphates, a basic detergent ingredient that loosens grime in hard water. Detergent phosphates flow into the nation's waterways, where they act as nutrients and cause excessive growth of algae. In a complex process called eutrophication, these algae ultimately pollute lakes and rivers. Soap-men contend that the major sources of phosphates in the waterways are not laundry products but sewage and runoffs from chemical fertilizer...
...restaurant, a notch or two above a stylish luncheonette, has been lovingly sanitized. Don't bother looking for a speck of dirt or any antique grime cherished from the old Bick era. A dark blue rug covers the ungodly Bick tile, and a double set of glass doors throws up a space-lock between the dining room and the filthy sidewalk ecology outside. The fancy Shakespearean name and the fleur-de-lis table mats won't fool too many patrons: this place is about as Elizabethan as Dayton, Ohio...