Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10� hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into...
...Football is the only major sport that does not have the ominous cloud of suspicion hanging over it when played by college teams," declared Eddie Morris(formally installed as a member of the Class of 1901 by the Associated Harvard Clubs of the World), former member of the Massachusetts Senate and "The Eye" at all football games in the Stadium...
Kentucky Cloud-Land...
...Clouds. In the shining sky at Demcratic headquarters in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, there were still a few dark clouds. Lowest and blackest was the money cloud. With a deficit hanging over, Democratic credit was none too good. Twenty-five-thousand-dollar contributions like Mr. Raskob's and Vincent Astor's were few & far between. The idea of small gifts from "forgotten men" had not proved a success. One week lately it was all headquarters could do to meet its $5,000 payroll. The campaign was largely being financed on more borrowed money and the hope...
...Opera House, to be dedicated this week, is easily the most attractive and practical building of its kind in the U. S. The stage has every convenience- an elaborate arrangement of bridges and traps permitting any part of the floor to be lowered or raised, an imported electrical cloud machine, a thunder machine, a wind machine. The seating arrangement will please boxholders far better than that which Samuel Insull devised for Chicago...