Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climbers-mere black dots- halt as one man, looking like rigid dolls. Then they dashed frantically to the left. The next moment a rolling cloud of snow preceding the avalanche swept down upon them and they vanished, completely blotted out like insects. "It was the most terrible spectacle I have ever witnessed. The roar grew louder as the clouds of snow swept nearer, moving with incredible velocity, while here and there vicious tongues of ice shot out under the confused jumble of great ice blocks rolling and sliding down." The dead: Chettan, oldtime porter, member of the last three Himalayan...
Every year Dr. Rudolfs makes a trade with the swamp eagles: He gives them blood, they give him information. Not many availed themselves of the trade last week as the Jersey mosquitoes have not yet attained their summer cloud proportions. When plentiful later on in the summer they will give Dr. Rudolfs at least ten bites per minute...
...that they may be right. If they are, let us have done with sham. Let us admit that Princeton no longer can compete with her ancient rivals. Let us ask Williams, Amherst, and Wesleyan whether they will take us in. An immediate and never-failing reason alleged for our cloud-swept athletic horizon is, of course, curricular difficulty. Being neither the Oxford nor the Cambridge of America, Princeton-so the story goes-is seeking to become the Harvard Law School of New Jersey...
Nimbus: "A luminous vapor, cloud or atmosphere about a god or goddess when on earth."- Webster...
...these are but two of the many involved points that cloud the question. The suggestions of both of these men would do much, however, to aid the present distress if they were sincerely accepted. Here again it is obvious that both the college and the secondary school must cooperate if any definite benefit is to be attained. Once more the question resolves itself not to what must be do no but how. The answer lies with the preparatory school and college authorities and the solution awaits their willingness to act in cooperation...