Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used primarily for burning. Phosphorous was used to burn men, houses, and forests. In addition, however, it made a wonderful smoke-screen through which, not even those with the keenest eyes could see." Using an illustration General Fries said. "Imagine trying to shoot ducks through a dense fog, and you have the same problem that confronted the attacking army trying to penetrate through a phosphorous cloud...
...very great satisfaction," Professor Carver said, "to find a man who does not think in a fog. We really need some strict enforcement of penalties against, criminals and it is only a small cult of half baked intellectuals, among them Clarence Darrow, that has begun to wonder whether crime may not be, after all, a misunderstood form of virtue, that has interfere. Such men, to who any new movement is interesting and original, and a pernicious influence in the country an through their grasshopper like stridency have always given the impression that their numbers are much larger than they really...
...round trip flight inaugurating the London-Cairo-Delhi air service (TIME, Jan. 10). The King-Emperor was graciously pleased to create Lady Maud a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She is the first woman ever to fly so many miles. There had been snow, rain, fog, sandstorms, but not a spare part was needed for the ship...
...morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...
...Dead. Eight passengers were killed when the famed Scarborough Express collided in the fog with a local train near Hull, wounding 30. Cross Channel Service was suspended for the first time in 50 years. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of the Belgians, in London to open an exhibit of Flemish art, were unable to get back to Belgium by either sea or air until the fog cleared. The loss to steamship concerns exceeded...