Word: fogged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pacifist chairman Scot MacDonald and a bristling array of Admiralty, Air Force and Army chiefs. In papers close to the Admiralty a, great uproar was made about Britain's Mediterranean base at Malta being now so weak as to be vulnerable to Italian air attack. Amid that utter fog which British statesmen so often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went home for King George's Jubilee Review were preparing to steam back to their stations ominously led, "a week early...
...into the Arctic night went Sergeant Morgan and a native crew in a whaleboat, equipped with an outboard motor. Through bad, murky weather, all mist and fog, they put-putted southward across little ponds and up small streams. Few hours later they made out a splotch of red-colored wreckage in the river a quarter-mile ahead near the Eskimo village of Walkpi. They landed, found a little group of natives huddled about a sleeping bag. On the ground, under the sleeping bag, lay the body of Will Rogers, his legs broken, his skull crushed. By his Ingersoll pocket watch...
...summer of 1931, Charles Lindbergh and his wife flew from College Point, Long Island-by way of Maine, Ottawa, Aklavik, Nome, Karaginski, and Tokyo-to Nanking and the flooded valley of the Yangtze River. They were driven down by darkness in Alaska, by fog in Japan; they were lost, went hungry, almost wrecked, were caught in a burning building, discovered a stowaway in their plane, were nearly mobbed by famished Chinese, had to swim for their lives in the dangerous Yangtze when their plane went over. Last week Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in a disarmingly modest record of the flight, apologized...
...officer: "Draw your own conclusions." It was generally understood that this latest military secret works by means of infra-red radiation. Emitted by ships and all other objects, this radiation occupies a place on the spectrum between visible light and radio waves, pierces much farther than light does through fog and haze...
...peak of electrical activity was noted, that the reflector was trained on some strong source of radiation-such as a metal ship out to sea in the dark. If this is how the Signal Corps' ship-finder works, it differs in no essential detail from the infra-red "Fog-eye" developed by Paul Humphrey Macneil and successfully demonstrated two years ago (TIME...