Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years attempts have been made to use infrared radiation (invisible vibration longer in wave length than visible light) to help fog-wrapped ships at sea. Some time ago Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams experimented with infrared cameras on two U. S. ships. The alert head of Pennsylvania's State police, Commissioner Percy W. Foote, decided that infrared radiation could be utilized on land as well as on sea, asked Flavel M. Williams to help him put it to work catching traffic law violators...
...hide behind a self-created fog...
...half the nation's business, anxious to cooperate with Washington. In addition, circumstances of the conference made it impossible to form any organization. But immediate failure should not discourage leaders of little business from trying to organize a body to discuss problems with the government, help lift the business "fog," and in general improve the relations between...
...frantic effort. But he also knows he is certain to lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob of jelly but retaining still a spark of self...
...London, fog was so thick that Charlton soccer eleven's Goalkeeper Bartram stayed at his post long after the other players left the field...