Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm layer hangs several thousand feet up (see diagram). Often the layer contains dust, which increases its power to divert light. If an airplane is flying just above this layer, the pilot may see the dim displaced image of the sun, the moon or a high, brightly lighted cloud. The image will appear below him; it may be distorted, magnified, or in rapid motion. If the inversion has waves in its surface (common near mountain ridge's), the pilot may see a line of bright objects in rapid motion. Menzel believes that this is what Pilot Kenneth Arnold...
...skies will cloud up again Friday afternoon, however, according to the Bureau prediction, thus spoiling the weekend for those who will be able to enjoy...
Married. Johnnie Ray, 25, sobbing composer-crooner (The Little White Cloud that Cried); and Marilyn Morrison, 22, brunette daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner; in Manhattan. Most of the wedding party shed a few tears, but the groom was all smiles until he broke down to sing a chorus of Cry for a teen-age delegate from a Brooklyn fan club...
...Tucson, Dr. Irving Langmuir, Dean of Rainmakers, reported that his cloud-seeding program over New Mexico had influenced weather patterns across the country. Said he: "If you set up a road block on a busy highway and stop all cars for ten minutes, let them through for ten minutes, and then stop them again for ten minutes, you will have influenced the flow of traffic for hundreds of miles in either direction from the road block. That's what we did with the weather for 21 months." Furthermore, said he: "There can no longer be any valid doubt...
...That once august body has since much declined in stature and vigilance. (The CRIMSON has gained in both; the Lampoon has just about held its own...) But in those days there were a few foresighted stalwarts who could recognize a storm when they saw, hovering over the Yard, a cloud no bigger than the palm of a hand. The storm was then being brewed by the men who founded the Crimson Key. They were frustrated, for they wanted to be Big Men on the Campus. Their aim was creation of an environment which would make possible fulfillment of that ambition...