Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CLOUD CUCKOO LAND-Naomi Mitchison-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In the declining days of Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain...
...national aircraft situation and give his testimony on what youth can, does and should do in the air. A licensed pilot since he was 13, the young man can navigate the subtle technicalities of aeronautical theory quite as readily as he copes in practice with air-pockets, cross winds, cloud banks and wind squalls...
...city of London, a trapeze was lowered on the end of which dangled a tiny airplane. For a moment it swung there perilously; then its motor took hold and it careered away, maneuvering all about the big dirigible, sniffing at air pockets, nosing through patches of heathery cloud, like a baby kangaroo which had got out of its mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined close, ready to try the hazardous feat of mooring. While both crafts drowsed along at the same speed, the plane...
...recent mysterious questionnaire which purported to submit to a plebiscite of graduates and undergraduates two statements--one by the CRIMSON and one by W. O. McGeehan, sports writer--has succeeded well in doing well what the anonymous joker who sent it evidently sought to do. It has thrown a cloud of misinterpretation and misunderstanding around a perfectly sane and frank statement by the CRIMSON of the proper relations that should exist between athletics and the College. One graduate Mr. J. M. Hallowell '88, who has been so misled, writes indignantly as follows...
...they have constructed a mechanism so vast, and a financial reservoir of proportions so oceanic that the tender plant is in more danger of being drowned than not watered. However, let us not be pessimistic. Some, if not all business will sprout sturdily in spite of this golden cloud-burst, and there seems small doubt that among the lost arts revived will be those of taking down shutters, giving short change, punching time-clocks, dressing windows, reading ticker-tape and compiling sucker-lists...