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Word: clouded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Venice Unseen" is an offering by Mr. Kloeber, imaginative and exaggerated, as "the silver night"; why not perhaps (when the moon is not shining) a qualification, as in Milton's "Comus": "Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...

Author: By Gerald COURTNEY ., | Title: Advocate Lean But Interesting | 1/24/1917 | See Source »

Perhaps the most interesting feature in the construction of the stage is the steam curtain. A pipe will extend across the entire front and whenever a curtain is needed the steam will be released from openings in the pipe, forming a curtain-like cloud from the foot of the stage, rising to a height of 40 to 50 feet. The effect will be that of a drop curtain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DIE WALKURE" TO BE GIVEN IN YALE BOWL THIS EVENING | 6/5/1916 | See Source »

With examinations almost over and diplomas almost in hand, but one cloud remains to darken the Seniors' horizon. What shall be done with the furniture which they have cared for and carved for four bright years? A second-hand dealer or a janitor can often be found who will condescend to remove mahogany desks and brass bedsteads with comparatively little expense to the owner. But aside from the fear that cherished heirlooms of college days may not receive the treatment to which they are accustomed is the knowledge that one's pocket-book has not profited by the transaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON FURNITURE. | 6/19/1915 | See Source »

...body of undergraduates on a subject directly opposite to that of last night. At the time of the excitement over the Mexican situation, the policy of keeping cool, and "keeping our shirts on" was freely advocated. Now we are to take a necessary precaution when the war cloud is nearer than ever before. It is the desire of everyone that mankind be so organized that war will be an impossibility. But to be prepared is no more provoking war, than it would be to abolish the police of Boston, or any superior governmental force the object of which in every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILITARY CAMPS DEFENDED BY SPEAKERS | 5/29/1915 | See Source »

Just now, however, the Advocate is to be congratulated chiefly because no hand of a graduate or advisory board or Faculty member is placed benignly upon its head, or at its throat; the undergraduate title remains without a high-brow cloud upon...

Author: By Richard WASHBURN Childs ., | Title: Good Verse Fills Current Advocate | 10/10/1914 | See Source »

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