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dust bowl Noun a dry area in which the surface soil is exposed to wind erosion
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| 9 quake that hit San Francisco on April 18, 1906, occurred in the same place today, it would rank as the United States' costliest natural disaster--with the possible exception of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, says Vranes. We may know something about the Dust Bowl, soup lines, and other aspects of that terrible time, but perhaps we know little about the coal miners of West Virginia and how they survived when the mines were closed. Her solo to his Dust Bowl Ballads (1941) used a limp fedora almost like a partner as she beat away at imaginary dust. |
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