Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morgan & Co. had been in a long position, but had had the misfortune to unload on Jan. 26, first day of the period under investigation. Nevertheless, the name of Morgan was enough to cloud the more significant revelation that during January the short position in seven leading air stocks increased from 4,000 to 44.000 shares. With that suspicious fact in view, Republican members of the Senate committee insisted that Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora begin an independent investigation to learn through what, if any, member of the Democratic Administration a leak might have sprung...
...CLOUD HOWE - Lewis Grassic Gibbon -Doubleday, Doran...
...next war will not be waged or won; it will pass like a black cloud in the night, and both combatants will have ceased to exist. The powers of propaganda, organized industry, and science refine the fire of such combat to an intensity calculated to reduce the whole to a whiff of smoke and ashes. The largest nation left extant would be able to organize the world under one control, if it has been able to remain neutral. That this did not occur in the last "war" is due only to the fact that its battles, its slaughter, its campaigns...
...maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud in the welkin of direct and open-faced lechery is the obnoxious Senor Gomez, whom the play-wright gives no shrift...
...disordered universe was not the cosmologist's all-embracing universe but the Large Magellanic Cloud, nearest galaxy to the Milky Way. With a microphotometer, a special camera and an able staff, he found in the Cloud more than 500 new variable stars and enough star clusters in its neighborhood to make its diameter seem 20,000 light years, double the previous estimate. His present objective is to locate, by measuring the amount of cosmic material in different directions and at different distances, the centre of the all-embracing universe - if such a centre exists...