Word: fog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman baseball game scheduled with Exeter and the Freshman tennis match scheduled with Dean Academy also had to be cancelled. Although the Colgate tennis team came all the way from Hamilton, New York, to play the second University team, the match could not be played. The wind and fog were so bad in the afternoon that the five scheduled crew races could not be rowed...
...Edwin L. Ash said that the celebrated London fogs are real varieties of mustard poisoning. He added that many children have contracted "fog poisoning...
...trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones (instrument engineer of the experimental station at McCook Field) flew from Dayton (Ohio) to Mitchel Field, Mineola, L. I., far above the dangerous clouds...
Vidar Jernberg, Swedish chemical engineer, makes thick and plentiful fogs with a two-foot machine, of value both in warfare and in agriculture. His "smoke buoy", when dropped upon the water, starts producing 35,000 cubic metres of smoke a minute, hiding objects 30 ft. away. The "smoke projector", for land work, generates fog much faster. Several European navies are now using his methods. Their pacific value lies in spreading smoke blankets over orchards, gardens and fields to prevent the ravages of frost. Radiation from the ground is checked...
...went on, "in common with the citizens of all nations, that at last that lack of power to agree upon a common attitude and common action had brought all Europe to a most critical and dangerous situation. This is not time to mince words. The impenetrable and colossal fog bank of economic opinion, based upon premises of fact, which have changed so rapidly as to make them worthless even if they are in agreement." Stating that he could speak neither for the American Government nor for the American people, Mr. Dawes added: "But as an individual, I read in shame...