Word: beclouds
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...part in political activities, lobbying and agitating on various issues. College men however, who are destined some day to take over the reins of government, may use their undergraduate days to far better advantage in sideline preparation on major problems than in front-rank agitation on minor questions that becloud...
...first few pages of "John Galsworthy" give evidence of serious "introduction trouble," an ill not uncommon among thesis writers. These pages say very turgidly much that there is no need to say, and thus becloud the necessary paragraphs. It would be unfortunate, though, if they should keep anyone from reading this otherwise admirable study...
...This is the one time in four years of undergraduate life for a newcomer to Cambridge to survey the job ahead of him, anticipate the dangers that will becloud his road, and probably for the first time in his life become fully cognizant of his responsibility to himself and to those who have made it possible for him to enter Harvard...
...year 1919, three young painters and a camera-man hatched an idea for a new film. They wanted to use that impersonal and reportorial tool, the camera, to tell a tale from a madman's brain and show the world through a mad-man's eyes. They wanted to becloud the lens, to forsake realism to gain artistic reality. In 1920 this film was finished, and "Dr. Caligari" made his crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk of the cinema coming...
...carries with it many sordid trappings, but few more obnoxious than the faulty memories of the participants. They do little to clarify issues or to reach new truth while they do much to becloud facts and to prolong old enmities...