Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strong evidence for the existence of a dense cloud of island universes, where conditions are three times as congested as those of average space, has been found by Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory. The cloud lies well beyond the range of all but very powerful telescopes and is located in the region of the sky that includes the southern constellations, Horologium, Roticulum, and Dorado...
...Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which he has been delivering elsewhere lately on the dark lining behind the silver cloud of British economic recovery. "I do not think," said he, "that our present building boom can last much longer...
...been blabbing what Army secrets General Hayashi did not say, sent Japan's garrison and division commanders away under a public cloud of suspicion. Still the darkest of current Japanese Army secrets remained the reason why General Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, was run through the chest by Army Swordsmanship Instructor Colonel Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26), who sat in jail last week purse-lipped. In general Japan's scrappy little war machine suffers from chronic super-patriotism in the lower ranks, jampacked with zealots who imagine that their generals are too soft and that Japan's current...
...track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew apart. At the finish, Sep Palin, driving the grey, was sitting straight and drawing in his reins. Warwell Worthy was a full five lengths behind...
...round-eyed dark-faced kinky-haired boy of 19 stood on a rug-draped platform of dried mud. To the rattle of war drums Ethiopian chieftains with lion-mane headdresses and gold embossed shields clustered protectively about the royal youngster. Across the field rolled a white-rimmed dust cloud out of which moved a horde of 100,000 yelling black warriors. Beyond the reviewing stand the troopers halted, faced to the north, where 100 miles away lay the town of Adowa. Then to a man they let out the old war cry of their country: "Ebalgume...