Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilfred. On the screen, like dyes filtered through fathomless deep-sea canisters, colors fainted, burned, swelled, darkened, dwindled, incredibly clear; patterns crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with their eyes. When an enthusiastic dolt began to clap, they hissed him down as if he had interrupted the first movement of a sonata...
After all, its good to be back. There is a charm about the old place not to be denied. But those bothersome examinations! They cloud every happy thought. Then the student's real self, that fearless part of him which rises superior to the requirements for a degree, urges. "Courage! If you persevere, you'll get an education yet in spite of the petty demands of courses and the exigencies of examinations...
...later executive order, the President also established as a national monument two tracts of land 30 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz. They contain ruins of buildings constructed by the Snake family of the Hopi Indians during prehistoric times. They are to be known as Wupatki (Great Rain Cloud House) National Monument...
...Broadway performances that it has been found necessary to patent these innovations. Notable among the contributions to the world of stage have been "Radium Ballet" from "The Man from Earth," and the picturesque opening scene of the second act of "Drake's Drum," in which unusual effects of cloud and water drawing were obtained. Both were subsequently to be seen on Broadway...
...length, 54,000 tons in capacity, plow across it, 600 miles a day or more, over the same spots where, on the ancient maps, great monsters with fluctuating tails engulfed the early mariner, across the same areas where great storm gods with puffing cheeks emerging from the cloud in bas relief blew the chill blast of sudden death upon lost adventurers. The mystery is gone. And the danger...