Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author is young (33) but considered by many a critic the most portentous cloud on the French literary horizon. A brilliant writer, he is no worker in enamel. His rare epigrams ("Youth is a religion which, in the long run, a man has always to retract") are the only tricolorations in his style. The world he writes of, in terms of savagery, torture, bloodshed, is too death-ridden to be neat...
...spectators in the Chicago Stadium knew what had become of it until they heard its sharp crack as Burke's teammate, Paul Thompson, stopped it. Expecting Thompson to try a difficult side shot for the goal, eight players turned sharply on their skates, churned up a white cloud of ice. But back spun the puck to Burke, who, almost as if he were practicing goal shots alone on the rink, sent it sliding past two defensemen, past Goalie Worters-and a red light flashed behind the goal. The Chicago Black Hawks had won, 3-to-2, the victory they...
...topics discussed will include the founding of the observatory and early experiences in observing, cloud investigations, exploration of the atmosphere with kites and balloons theory of storms, experiments in radio transmission, and solar radiation investigations...
First a Japanese youth in neat store clothes suddenly broke from the tourist ranks just as a sulphur cloud belched up, leaped into the crater. Next with a wild yell a second youth in store clothes followed the first. After that for minutes nothing happened. The tourists, their nerves tingling with thrills, turned gradually away, began to leave the crater. Just then a mild-mannered young man in a Japanese kimono inched imperceptibly toward the edge. Several Japanese ladies screamed as he stripped off his kimono, revealing a handsome torso stark naked. "Police!" cried the ladies. "Stop him!" But clean...
Professor Bancroft's thesis is that the thread-like nerve ends clot when exhausted by wakefulness or worry or poisoned by sedatives, hypnotics, narcotics, anesthetics or alcohol. He has indeed seen through microscopes drugged nerve ends turn dull, cloud and congeal like poached eggs. His contention is that sodium rhodanate dissolves the clots at the nerve ends, restores them to their natural consistency...