Word: dusting
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...outside the missionary spirit. It helped to maugurate or to increase among so many, at least, a better understanding of what the body can reach in fleetness, in dexterity, in strength and in endurance; and in spite of the shock to fastidiousness of a little bruising and a little dust, and a very little blood, it gave a glimpse of the possibilities of the corporeal human nature, which was as beautiful...
...students is done in one lot, and the clothes are dried in the open air, thus subjecting them to every chance of infection, whether by direct contact with the soiled linen of some diseased individual or by the subtle chances of contamination from germs carried by the wind, as dust is carried, or brought by flies - notorious sowers of sickness. It would not be very difficult to start a college laundry, a steam laundry, where soiled linen could easily, if necessary, be disinfected, and where at least the sources whence clothes come would be known, and so infection be easily...
...McPherson, '89, umpired very impartially and satisfactorily except in one or two decisions on bases, where the cloud of dust raised by a slide made a quick decision impossible. The score...
...particulars may be omitted here, with the remark that they comprise matters of latitude and longitude, elevation above the sea, prevalence of snow, proximity of fuel and water, means of access, statistics or approximate information as to rainfall at different seasons, prevalence of clouds mists, smoke of forest fires, dust, high winds, frequency of thunder-storms, duration of rainy or cloudy season, etc. - Advertiser...
...present, to gain the most rope possible during five minutes. All the four men lay on the rope, raising with a spring, as if to get a new drop, when they heaved. In the out-door pulls, the teams burrowed holes for their feet, pulling furiously, and covered with dust...