Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rising sand-clouds from the West blew relentlessly across the stone-edge plain. Formations of loess dropped in dismaying array on huddled figures before shivering animals. Superstitious yellow-men wrapped themselves deeper into fur-lined garments and earth-colored birds took safety in fight toward the East. Sky and land fused together in one great maelstrom of motion. Here was storm over Asia...
Winds gradually abate in fury. A spot of pure, translucent blue can be seen now through the inky heaven. Clouds disappear like magic. Great quantities of sand settle on the cold plain like rain on a marshy flat. The Simoon is gone! Oaths from native drivers bring struggling beasts to their feet. Loads are replaced, straps tightened. Hearts beat high again with hope. Endless journey across the white sands of the Gobi is resumed . . . and the Vagabond travels to Chinese 11 to hear Mr. Gardner in his charming and inimitable manner recount dramatically life in the Far East...
...Adams knows too much about history to singularize plural causes. Slavery, says he, was only a contributing factor in the widening divergences between North and South. Even in 1700 the antagonism between Massachusetts and South Carolina, "the two protagonists in our tragedy," was already latent. For the "rope of sand" that held the 13 colonies together was substituted a Constitutional chain of iron, which had to be tempered in blood before it was proved indissoluble. Historian Adams shows convincingly the inevitable drawing apart of agrarian South from industrial North, an incompatibility be coming more & more coherent. Just before the Civil...
...claimed that a meteor descended on the beach, missing them by inches, and burying itself in the sand. For several days they charged admission to see the rarity, but their profitmaking was cut short when the stone was sent to Harvard to be analyzed. Experts were puzzled at first, but their bewilderment was short-lived. The "meteor" was nothing more than a clinker from a furnace...
After the Assembly had disposed of such routine business as electing for its President Foreign Minister Richard Sand-ier of Sweden, a thoroughgoing Socialist, it began to appear that Foreign Minister Barthou might reach his first objective even sooner than he had expected. Three days of corridor-padding and bedroom-lobbying had produced the assurance that, when Russia's entry came up in the Council, Poland would vote yes, Argentina and Portugal would cast no ballots...