Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students to quit politics, President Grau granted complete autonomy (including freedom of expression) to the University of Havana, plus an annual grant of at least 2% of Cuba's revenues. ¶ A cloud on Cuba's horizon remained the Negro problem. Negro crowds have used political excitement to loot shops, steal liquor. Lately white women have been insulted. Splashed on fences, a slogan has appeared: NEGRO, GET YOUR WHITE WOMAN! WE ARE EQUAL NOW. Immediate result was the organization last week...
...service reform was born full fledged into the republic. The England its birth was difficult, for all the midwifery of Macaulay and of Gladstone, but England is not the United States. The alien does not doubt, but he is not long a citizen before ugly suspicions grow up to cloud his mind...
Near Aurora, Ill. L. W. Talbot, driving a truckload of piglets to the Chicago stockyards, had to stop when the road was blanketed by a cloud of smoke from peat fires. Behind him came another truckload of pigs driven by Ellis Johnson, who drove into the smoke, smashed into the rear of Talbot's truck. Behind Johnson came a string of five automobiles. One by one they disappeared in the smoke cloud, each ramming the car ahead. Eighth in line was Elmer Reiser who, suspecting a holdup, swung into the left lane and sped ahead. He smashed into...
Many a writer appears on the literary horizon like a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, swells quickly to mistily gigantic proportions and-vanishes like a mist. Gertrude Stein is no such writer. Like a huge squat mountain on a distant border of the literary kingdom, obscured not only by the cloudy procession of more Aprilly authors but by the self-induced fog that hangs around her close-cropped top, she has loomed from afar over the hinterland of letters, a sphinxlike, monolithic mass. Twenty years she has squatted there; eyes accustomed to the landscape are beginning...
...Atwater of Westinghouse Lamp Co. in a lecture at New York University fast week advocating a light-control device for schoolrooms. In a metal & glass cabinet affixed to the wall is a photoelectric cell adjusted to snap on the lights when, the sun having gone behind a cloud, the school-room's illumination falls below average intensity. In a special class for weak-eyed pupils in Jersey City, N. J., one Westinghouse installation geared to lamps giving an intensity of 30 footcandles* (four or five times the normal classroom light), has helped the handicapped students lift their work well...