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Word: dusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock remarkably like that of "Dr." Pearce. He had Tie Down Goods instead of Tie-Them-Down and King Solomon's Marrow instead of King Solomon's Wisdom Stone. He also had some additional merchandise: Boss Fix Powders (to keep employers well disposed) Guffer (or Goof-er) Dust, Happy Dust, Easy Life Powder and Buzzard Nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Medicine Man | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Later, and in a more quiet mood, Pastor Straton found the opportunity to say: "... While Warren [his son] was praying, the power of God came over him just as it did over Paul and struck him down in the dust, as it came in ancient times over whole companies of men. I am not ashamed of it, nor is my son ashamed of it.... I am not a publicity hound.... I have been fighting unrighteousness since I came down to New York, and I have been doing it in a corner. What I would rather do than anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Calvary Baptists | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...gave their lives to the German cause in the Great War. Sometimes, as in this case, with the proposed building of a new memorial chapel to the Harvard dead, the question becomes embarrassing. But far oftener, the names of these infamous graduates are suffered to remain in the dust of newspaper morgues, known to few and acclaimed by none, while their spirit moves on, unchecked, endowed with succeeding generations of their unwitting heirs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFAMOUS SONS OF HARVARD | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...Jesus Christ still lives and will continue to live long after those who would crucify him over and over again are nothing but the merest dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...really better to go hatless? Is a windblown, dust-swept, rain-soaked, hail-battered or snow-covered hatless head best? Is it better than a head simmering in its own heat under a piece of felt that may have been worn for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imitation | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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