Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minneapolis; North High School. Minneapolis; Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J.; Central High School, Greensboro, N. C. (two prizes-for newspaper, for magazines) ; Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio; Junior High School No. 2, Trenton, N. J.; Nashua Junior High School, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Philadelphia Normal School; Junior Teachers' College, St. Cloud, Minn...
...farmer's daughter heard the noise, saw a bluish cloud of smoke ascend. An investigating party beheld a hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...
Toward Leipsic rumbled a special train carrying an old man whose worst enemies sarcastically admit that he has become almost a god on earth. A cloud of escorting airplanes flew overhead, and the train rumbled on. Crowds cheered as it entered the great Leipsic station. Wearily Paul von Hindenburg descended and passed with tired majesty through a mob whose enthusiasm would barely let him pass...
More than merely consent to such a decree, the corporation officials had further to agree to publish the consent decision by paid advertisements. They did so at once, and gained thereby because they had thus opportunity to clear the cloud on their intentions...
...study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned-out Greek beauty and that their daughter Sparta has a dazzling net of golden hair, grey eyes changing as a winter cloud, and a voice like "skeins of rock-crystal flecked through and through with tiny flakes of softest gold...