Word: dusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ronald Ross, the authority on tropical disease, told the British Science Guild in London: " You throw your geniuses in the dust heap." He pointed out that the man who discovered methods of inoculation against cholera (Waldemar M. W. Haffkine) and the man who discovered the cure for sleeping sickness (Sir David Bruce) are neither of them now employed by Great Britain. Also, Walter Reed, the American who discovered that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, died without knowing how his wife and children would be provided...
...Thoreau's little hut by Walden Pond he treasured a single ornament- a fine specimen of granite, cut and polished by himself. To enjoy its delicate markings, Thoreau had to dust the stone every day. At length he decided that the time spent in polishing the little block was out of all proportion to its value; it was needlessly cluttering his life. So one day pitched it into the middle of the pond...
...jacket on this volume of poems describes them as "poems of the earth and of ultimate space, of the pollen-dust of the buttercups, and the gold-dust of Orion...
...this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited quantities. A small town in the heart of the Pennsylvania anthracite district has had to appeal to the federal government for aid in securing coal to heat its schools...
...beat Yale or Harvard or Princeton and the others of the great teams whose shadow once fell so far across the autumn fields. Therefore, "I-o-way", is happy. It is something, after all, to have come out of Iowa City and rubbed the "Bulldog's" nose in the dust of his own field. Philadelphia Public Ledger...