Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard and Yale will resume hostilities on the baseball diamond this afternoon at three o'clock on Soldiers Field with all of yesterday's spectators getting a rain check. Twirlers Mort Waldstein and Dick Ames were looked in a tight pitcher's duel yesterday when a cloud-burst broke loose in the fourth inning, making further play impossible...
...there was no deliberate intent, the most I could have done in such a case would have been to take the round away from Louis as a warning. . . ." Said Promoter Mike Jacobs, seeing the golden lining in the cloud of dispute: "All I can say is that anybody who stays away from a Louis fight this year is crazy. Anything can happen." Louis' next opponents: Billy Conn (June 18), Abe Simon (July 23), Lou Nova (Sept. 17). Then the Baby Baer will probably get another chance at the champion...
...Daily News Correspondent Sam Brewer cabled a story of his escape from Yugoslavia. "Now I know how it feels to wait for a firing squad," he began. His adventures started on his way to Belgrade when a train dumped him out ten miles outside the city. Against a black cloud over the town wheeled the Nazi dive-bombers. Correspondent Brewer, guided by flames, trudged on alone with pack and typewriter toward the city. In the deserted, fire-drenched, shattered streets, stumbling through splintered glass, he was arrested by eight Comitadjis with shotguns and pistols. Unable to read, they concluded...
Last week bright-skied spring bared its first smiles on Britain. Those smiles were sinister. They snatched away winter's ice-laden, cloud cover for convoys plodding across the Atlantic and up the coast of Africa. They spread the horizons and smoothed the swells for Germany's swarm of new submarines. They gave fair weather and good hunting to ocean-ranging bombers...
Before the days of railroads, of high tariffs and high wages, when most of the U. S. population clung to the seacoasts, men took to the sea in merchant ships. Clippers like the Flying Cloud, Sovereign of the Seas, Great Republic, Red Jacket, Lightning showed clean heels to anything afloat. U. S. seamen, U. S. ships were the finest in the world. Before the Civil War the U. S. had the best and second-biggest (2,379,000 tons) fleet of merchantmen on the high seas, and carried over 77% of its foreign commerce in its own bottoms. But steam...