Word: cumulus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to 40-year-old Robert Gwathmey, art teacher at Manhattan's Cooper Union, for a postery agricultural study called Hoeing. Third prize of $500 went to 28-year-old John Rogers Cox for White Cloud, a stylized, theatrically lighted farm scene under a lone, spectacular cumulus vapor...
...Most helpful clouds are the woolly, lumpy cumulus and its relatives-the high stratocumulus (bumpy) and altocumulus. These rich vapors are excellent for playing hide-&-seek with enemy planes, give a fighter cover for sudden dodges and quick surprises. Because the cumulus frequently hovers over islands, it often shows a flyer where land is when he cannot see the land itself. It also shows glider pilots where rising air currents...
...Clouds as weather forecasters: thin cirrus clouds or altocumuli mean fair weather for at least 24 hours ("the higher the clouds, the finer the weather"); thickening cirrus and layers of clouds moving in different directions mean rain; big cumulus clouds in the morning mean thunder showers in the afternoon; persisting fog means rain by afternoon or night...