Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attendants at Miami municipal airport smelled smoke, then saw it streaming from the field's big hangar. Before Miami's fire department could get into action the hangar was a furnace, airplane gas tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...
...scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first of ten "stands"- gigantic sets of rollers each as high as a three-story house and weighing as much as 450 tons apiece. As steam billows in a cloud, the writhing slab flattens out under these successive squeezes until it is a hundred-yard ribbon, as flexible as a snake's tongue...
PLEASE DON'T GIVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLACK EYE BECAUSE REPORTS OF OUR HEAVY DEW SOUNDED BAD. YOU DID THIS ABOUT OUR EARTHQUAKE YEARS AGO. AS THIS IS BEING WRITTEN NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY, THE SUN IS SHINING AND STREET IN FRONT OF PLOMB TOOL CO. IS PERFECTLY...
...once, Bernice stalled. Then she lacerated a telephone pole. Then, enough of this mild play, she decided, and off they went in a cloud of gear teeth, both steering wheels flapping idly, both gas pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...
...days after the report was published, the proposal to aid parochial schools had raised a small but ominous cloud. Said fiery Professor George S. Counts of Columbia's Teachers College at a convention of the Progressive Education Association in Manhattan: "I think that is a very dangerous and vicious recommendation, an entering wedge to destroy the public-school system...