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Word: clouded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There still remain things to be done. The boat race must be rowed today and the baseball game must be played tomorrow. The sky has been searched with powerful telescopes but not a cloud has been seen to break the viciously brazen arch of the heavens. Yet even if the sun continues its merciless glare and the asphalt becomes a sea of tar, the shadows of Harvard rooters will throng to the arenas of sport to cheer on their teoms. . . . "The rest is silence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SPOUT, RAIN!" | 6/22/1923 | See Source »

...storm-cloud at night sudden gathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: A Black Aaron Burr | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

Lausanne conferences have waxed and waned and the threat of war has lowered black on the horizon more than once. The most recent cloud, which arose over the Turkish claim for reparations, has now been turned inside out by Venizeios and Ismet Pasha, and ministers at Lausanne believe that wisps of silver can be seen without great straining of the eyes. With both parties to the argument immovable in their convictions, the obstacle at first appeared difficult. Then the other members of the conference joined the argument. Greece acknowledged the validity of the claim, Turkey accepted the gift of Karaghatch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LIGHT IN THE EAST | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...From the open window Harry Gray watched a white cloud mount slowly above the blue state roof of the opposing wing of Randolph Hall and climb slowly into the weak blue autumnal...

Author: By C. P. M., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 5/11/1923 | See Source »

Jeff Thatcher is a poor boy. He is forced to leave Pennington Institute under a nasty cloud. Becoming a newspaper reporter, Jeff attends a train wreck. Somewhere under the debris he discovers an absconding cashier with $100,000 of the First National's securities. The reward and the kudos thus accumulated suffice for his return to Pennington, where he "makes" (the quotes are Mr. Scott's) the School Team. Naturally enough the school bully is his defeated rival for third base. In the "big" game of the season Jeff saves the situation with a triple play, unassisted, in the ninth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third Base Thatcher | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

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