Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...explorers went, through a meagre crevice in the tunnel to yet another hall. The rocks were coated with powdery limestone formation. Nicholson jumped from a rock onto seemingly solid floor, sank neck deep into powdery dust which, clouding aloft from its aeons of tranquillity, floated steadily off through an immense opening near the ceiling...
...great vault of Atlantic City's "world's largest" Convention Hall, national trysting place of bigwig and bruiser, was filled, last week, with fine dust raised by the heels of 10,000 school teachers. For six days they peered and poked at florid displays of stickers, building material, motorbuses, soap. They were harangued with the eloquence of over 300 orators. When the pedagogs decamped they took from the 60th anniversary convention of the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence impressions that will more or less affect each one of their charges, some...
Wailing from a Park Avenue Presbyterian pulpit, Dr. Meiklejohn, director of the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin, covers himself with his usual sackcloth and ashes and vainly questioning, beats the un answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education...
...disappointment. A course that should be an exhilirating experience for mind and spirit is reduced to a bitter one by the stupidity of some tutorial person who makes out the questions--who cannot understand that he is dealing with a growing organism which needs light and air and not dust and ashes...
Photographers last week prepared to take huge, detailed pictures of Michelangelo's magnificent paintings in Rome's Sistine Chapel. Reason: the Michelangelos must be treated for chemical decay in the paint, damp air and dust effects, carbon deposits from the smoke of holy candles. The photographs will be used to check the restorative process...