Word: fog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problems, that legacy of the ages. You are free of that, and it is difficult for you perhaps to get our point of view on these things. The damage of what was has been so great that sometimes I feel that we can never get out of the fog; but here there is new hope and new confidence. Everybody is young and looks at the world through the eyes of youth...
Hangars, houses and steeples cance." "quietly The dropped into Super-Reporter insignifigance "above the foam of thickening clouds ... in the boiling fog which lay between us and the civil war . . . through the strange sky, in sane with sunset," to Bratislava. There, "everything was mad." The Super-Reporter's workaday comrades miraculously procured auto dark." mobiles in "that madness in the dark...
...Fog is man's enemy. Coast dwellers frown when the grey banks drift in and smother the buoys. At sea the slowed ships feel their way; the sirens mourn incessantly. Voices are lowered in a fog, which muffles them yet lower as though it shrouded something grave about to happen. Fog, several hours of it, gets on men's nerves. Two thousand miles of groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest...
...rescue ships, when news came that the flyers had reached land, the rescuers wondered why Flyers Smith and Bronte had not canceled their alarms when safety neared. Old seamen nodded knowingly. "That's what the fog does to you," they said. The explanation of their silence given by the flyers was this: When the S. O. S. signals were sent, the plane was dropping due to poor fuel feed, which boded a shortage. Near the sea's surface, the clog in pump or fuel line cleared up under the increased atmospheric pressure of the lower altitude...
Pilot Smith described a hazardous moment: "Once we started to land on some 'farms' (formed by mirages) caused by the moon on a fog bank...