Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfounded and irresponsible statement ... by Colonel Seton Hutchison to the effect that the late King of the Belgians was murdered." What the imaginative British lieutenant colonel, wounded and decorated four times during the War, had done was to put into words a rumor that had grown fast from a cloud of unanswered questions about Albert's death while mountain climbing last February...
...over the Puritans, which by the way, didn't come until the much inning. Professor Whitney. Master of Kirkland House, Mrs. Whitney, Douglas V. Brown, former Head Tutor, suddenly trundled into sight on a flock of bicycles. After cheering on the team they left in a cloud of dust to pay a visit to Professor James Thayer Addison, Acting Master of Kirkland House last year...
...comes the sad part of the tale. The accidental upsetting of a goblet, and the consequent tinkling of broken glass precipitated violent action. In a black thunder-cloud of wrath descended His Majesty harsh words rasped as lightning flared forth; and the much-taken-aback Commander of the Carrot, feeling on a par with the meanest of his spud-skinning scullions slunk with his companion out of the abode of the Mighty with his tall between his legs. That is why Waistootts and He-Men have not recently been found in especial Presidential favor...
...also stipulated that the winning drama should be pre-eminent "in raising the standards of good morals, good taste and good manners." Last week the award of the Pulitzer Prize, which may not raise the national dramatic level but can usually be counted upon to raise a dust cloud of national controversy, ran true to form. Taking advantage of advance press releases, gabby Walter Winchell jumped the gun a full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news...
Lightning's energy amounts to some 1,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours in a year, should some day be harnessed by man. Anatomy of a lightning flash: a "leader" stroke shoots from a negatively charged cloud-bottom to positively charged Earth; the main stroke traces the leader's path in the opposite direction. New photographs with a special speed camera show the leader stroke varying in length from 1.6 to 4.7 miles, in speed from 810 to 19,000 miles per second.-Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, University of Capetown...