Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only cloud on the autumnal business horizon was that patch which always spooks Industry with the shadow of political uncertainty in a Presidential election year...
...Murphy, R. F. D. 1, Fulton, Ky., South Fulton High School; Thomas J. Pressly, of 804 Temple Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn., Knoxville High School; Thomas H. E. Quimby, of 21 South Union Avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich., Central High School, Grand Rapids; Fred A. Rice, of 506 Second Avenue, South, St. Cloud, Minn., Technical High School, St. Cloud...
...real tragedy is not that the public service loses a remarkable man, but that so fine a record should have ended under a cloud...
...last week a black cloud rolled in from Lake Erie toward Conneaut, Ohio, dropped from its belly a thin, whirling column which touched the dark water, churned up a fountain of spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans...
Ancient mariners regarded waterspouts as dragons, tried to disperse them by stamping their feet, shouting, beating drums, clashing swords. When gunpowder came into use, sailors tried to break the columns by shooting cannon. The spouts are chiefly vapor but may contain fresh water condensed from the cloud or salt water sucked up from the sea. Like tornadoes they are atmospheric vortices caught by conflicting air currents, with partial vacuums at their cores. In general, however, they are much less violent than the average tornado, do damage only by dropping their loads of water. If a land tornado passed...