Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past succeeded in producing rain in the space of a week they were highly esteemed, and considered as ornaments to their profession. But even the most sanguine of them did not expect to have their prayers answered in ten minutes--unless, perhaps, they had previously noticed a thunder-cloud gathering on the horizon. In the future, however, "rainstorms to order" will be regarded as commonplace...
...laws of electricity, but to the layman the whole affair remains "miraculous": The aeroplane carried a cargo of about eighty pounds of sand grains which were charged with static electricity by means of a wind driven generator. At a height of 500 feet above the tops of the cloud, these sand particles were scattered abroad by the propeller, so that they gradually settled upon the cloud-mass below. The interaction of opposite electric charges between sand and moisture particles caused a condensation, and the clouds changed to rain, leaving a clear sky in their place...
...demanded a settlement on a piece of legislation which has kept shipping interests in a state of complete uncertainty since its first introduction. As in the case of the British debt, once the uncertainty is cleared up in one way or another, there can be progress, but with the cloud of political fog enshrouding the Capitol, advance is difficult or impossible...
...world wide agreement on the general principle that Germany should be made to pay as much as possible without financial collapse. The difficulty comes in determining how much that much is Germany on her part has made no New Year resolves and has vested control in throwing up a cloud of paper money behind which to mask the true state of her finances...
...moment of quiet between, the halves even those most biased can applaud the captains. In the attractive age of classic mythology these men would be heroes, eternally sung. In the age of the Church they would be ranked with the saintly, "cloud of witnesses". Neither conceptions have much appeal to this age which rather feels it is a question of ideas, an that the sparks from the anvils of many workers have at last lit a cleansing fire which promises to destroy the evils that they hated and leave the air unpolluted, undisturbed, as they would have...