Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain L. I. Eagle and Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
...during lunch that an unwatched pan, bubbling over with boiling grease, ignited some coal dust in one of the flues and caused a cloud of smoke and a tongue of flame to issue from the roof over C entry of James Smith Hall. Simultaneously the kitchen and pantry filled with smoke and caused a huried retreat of chefs and maids...
...Progressives tended to take this announcement ill, their tempers probably did not improve at the early returns from the polls. But no matter how black things may turn out, a silver lining shines through their dark cloud. The report of Professor Henry T. Moore of Dartmouth indicates that they are the most intelligent group represented among the political divisions at Harvard, at least by the criterion of the Rank List...
...station will be opened today by Dr. J. S. Paraskevopoulos, who is in charge of the Boyden station at Arequipa. It is located 4850 feet above sea region that has been found to be at most cloudless, even when Arequipa a level of 8000 feet in cloud-board...
...work is based on the assumption that visible forms of moisture in the air, such as mists, clouds, and fogs, are a form of colloidal suspension in gases and should be governed by the same general laws that prevail in colloidal action in liquids and solids. The sand tanks on the airplanes are flied with 120 mesh silica sand. When a cloud in found to have a negative charge positively charged particles are scattered at the extreme top; when the cloud has a positive charge negatively charged sand particles are scattered at the extreme top; and if the cloud...