Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson invented the cloud chamber. This device makes visible the fantastically rapid paths, straight, curved, or broken, of electrons and other subatomic particles. The cloud chamber contains water vapor or other fluid vapor which, suddenly expanded by a piston, condenses along the particle paths in fog droplets that show up in photographs as white streaks...
...example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...
...sport continue to be a prominent feature in Harvard athletics...The only thing to be done is to organize class elevens...From these teams a fairly strong 'varsity eleven may be picked to play the Canadian teams, and thus the foot-ball spirit may be kept alive until the cloud of faculty disapproval, which now rests above the sport, shall be removed...
...Carbon evaporates more slowly than any of the other elements, condenses more rapidly. The sun frequently ejects matter from its atmosphere and R Coronae Borealis may very well do likewise. This cast-off material, reasons Astronomer O'Keefe, condenses rapidly, since it is carbon, and forms a sooty cloud which obscures the light of the stars. One per cent of the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere of R Coronae Borealis could cut out 99% of its light. Astronomer O'Keefe supposes that as the cloud dissipates the stars appear bright again...
More complex than ordinary posters in that they interpret abstract political aims, the Renau montages are best on the simplest points. To illustrate Point Il, "Liberation of our territory from foreign military forces which have invaded it," the artist combined a silhouette map of Spain with a stormy night cloud, set against it a blasted tree gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble...