Word: cloudlessness
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...first light of a cloudless dawn last week France's first Socialist-dominated Chamber of Deputies adjourned with an all-time record of 65 "economically revolutionary" bills passed in ten weeks. Cried weary, wispy Premier Leon Blum to the Deputies: "The greatest social movement since the foundation of the Third Republic has been accomplished without any shedding of blood but by persuasion only...
...that event learned Dr. Abbot, 64, told how a policeman once tried to arrest lanky Marine Biologist William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for a dead goldfish. He gave a whistling imitation of an Algerian shepherd boy whom he once heard while searching Algeria for a cloudless site for a solar observatory. He concluded with a baritone rendition of a sea ditty about "a ship that went for to sail with a whale at its tail...
There was no ceremony as. under cloudless skies, the huge silver Pan American Clipper rose from the waters of San Francisco Bay, headed off on her second flight to Honolulu. The trip had been purposely delayed to await a storm forecast-a test of the Clipper's mettle. That night the great Sikorsky flew under cloudy skies over the rough Pacific until at dawn the light of Makapu Point reached out across Koneohe Bay. Then Oahu Bay appeared and First Officer Sullivan set her 19 tons down lightly in Pearl Harbor...
...burning sun under a cloudless blue sky, a doughty Kirkland House baseball team felt the well sharpened Bulldog teeth of the champion Yale College batsmen, as they went down to inglorious defeat before the clever pitching of the Jonathan Edwards team by a score of 11-0 yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...near freezing, an airplane skimmed back & forth, back & forth across a lowland field in eastern Wisconsin. From midnight until 5 a. m. the plane continued its lonely patrol at loo ft. altitude, barely missing the tamarack trees bordering the field. At dawn it flew away, to return another chill, cloudless night...