Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truck ground to a halt on Rio's pleasant Rua Bartholomeu Mitre, children looked up from their play. After the workmen had unloaded the dark, moist sand into the street and gone away, the kids swarmed over the sandpile, pelting each other with sand and small pebbles...
Finally-bingo!-a shiny new sedan piled smack into the mound. Satisfied onlookers crowded around to console the driver, who stood in the sand and held his smashed nose...
...said Newton, "I was lucky." "There are no lights on the sand," said the driver...
News dispatches solemnly reported an Arab tale of a boy who lived with a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert. He browsed and watered with them, sped over the sand with them when they fled the hunter. In fact, he ran at a speed of no less than 50 m.p.h.* for several miles before a jeepload of hunters finally overhauled him and took him into camp. Skeptical Americans, who had been raised on such fare from P. T. Barnum to Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, heard and grinned...
Annoy an Oyster. Back in 1890 Mikimoto heard a Japanese zoologist lecture on the possibility of cultivating pearls. Why not implant an irritant like a grain of sand in a baby oyster, see if the oyster would coat it with layers of nacre, and thus form a pearl? Mikimoto decided...