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Word: cloudly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richmond, Flying Instructor Brock Minor scattered 50 lbs. of dry ice into a cumulus cloud at 8,400 feet, brought the city its first shower in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Rain Makers | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago Tribune airplane brought a 40-minute rain to suburban St. Charles, Ill., by "seeding" a 20,000-ft. cumulus cloud with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Rain Makers | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Last week a "high Finnish source" let it out that Moscow wanted a new trade agreement, would like to start negotiations in October. It was a cloud on the horizon, and no one could say-yet-whether it was bigger or smaller than a man's hand. The Finns hoped that Moscow was not disturbed by the fact that,-on one recent day, there were 17 U.S. ships in Helsinki harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Autumn Cloud | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...fellow St.-Cloud police officer was more tolerant, Said he: "How else would you have it, monsieur? They loved each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: How Else, Monsieur? | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

There are 1,500,000 civil servants in France and most of them are underpaid. Handsome Pierre Houdard, police commissioner of suburban St.-Cloud, considered himself especially underpaid after he met Betty Coujean. When Betty became his mistress, and Pierre had to support his wife, seven-year-old son and Betty on 13,000 francs ($108) a month, that settled it. Betty, the wife of a racketeer Pierre had put in jail, showed Pierre how he could cover up for a ring of automobile thieves, and make lots of francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: How Else, Monsieur? | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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