Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time, a sickening wave of emotion swept over her-at the cypresses growing from the still, dark water, the abandoned, sagging-roofed cabins, the wilderness perfumes of Louisiana that were first intoxicating and then dizzily cloying. When she first saw the gleaming white colonnades of White Cloud flashing through the grove beyond the hedges, the terraces, the live oaks trailing mournful banners of moss, her heart pounded at its ancient, mirage-like beauty...
Meteorologists are sure that under ordinary conditions it is impossible to duplicate the natural forces that make rain. But Table Mountain's "cloth" is not an ordinary cloud. Created by a wet south easter that constantly blows against the upper slopes of the mountain, the cloud, spilling over the mountainsides, is so moist that water drips from the trees and bushes it envelops, and rainfall high on the mountain averages up to 72 inches a year...
...Schumann reasoned that there must be some way to condense this moisture on objects other than trees. He first tried gauze netting (using a small artificial cloud in his laboratory), but the tiny droplets went through his net. He decided to apply electricity: he put two gauze disks in a glass tube, created a potential of 30,000 volts between them, succeeded in condensing all the cloud vapor in his tube...
...proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...
...shall have to live for again, when the war is done. In the experience of every man, every day, it is what constitutes peace. A grandmother seated in a doorway, dreaming in retrospect; the flying step of a dancer across a stage, like a festive honeybee; a watery cloud breathing over a hill; cheap plaster of a poor domicile ennobled by light: yes, petty, if you like. But unless we care about such things, French things, domesticity, dancing, landscape - unless we care far more whole heartedly than we did in the last interval of peace - we shall never maintain...