Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...problems and they have already effected striking improvements in the gas masks and have increased their effectiveness almost ten-fold. Then there is the problem of defence against the use of incendiary mixtures and the allied problem of their offensive employment, and again the problem of the production of clouds and their use. This matter has been taken up vigorously by American chemists and great advances made so that cloud production is being reduced to a science and a most effective instrument thus being added to the armory of America. These, as I have said, are examples taken at random...
This speech what is needed at this time: it resources the Allies of our firmness of purpose at a moment when such assurance comes as a bright lining to the cloud of Russian confusion; it also acts as a "coup de grace" to the pacifistic element of the country. What we must beware of now is doing more talking than acting. We have to spend this year about three-quarters as much money as the entire amount expended in the last one hundred and twenty years. This means saving on the useless things, it means buying only those articles which...
Therefore as we put in our Coop books the dates for these day of morning and plan just how long a period we will have for revelry, let us gaze into the dark future and prepare. The prospect is not too cheering, yet every cloud has a silver lining and in the case of the mid-years the bright spots come from the being ready weeks ahead...
...rather a desperate gambler's throw, a final attempt to bring victory to the Teuton arms, an opportunity for the people of Berlin to hang out their flags and indulge in one of those celebrations which have become increasingly infrequent in the past months. It may eventually prove a cloud with a silver lining if the newly formed Allied War Committee, which will have supreme authority on all the fronts, succeeds in combining the disconnected activities of the many allied armies into one efficient and effective plan of action; if the particular aims of each nation are subordinated...
...uneventful missionary existence in Japan. She has passed into her late twenties--that fearsome betwixt and between age--with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees in him a tool of the cruel, laughing Tiger. Hale is merely youthfully flirtatious...