Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single plane of two-dimensional Flatland, the inhabitants can, of course, see each other (and all things) only as straight lines. Fortunately, however, every Flatland creature has luminous edges; and there is chronic fog in Flatland, through the obscurity of which the slant of lines is quite apparent and a Figure's angles and shape can be inferred without feeling all his sides'. The Flatland women are mere straight lines, like needles. Hence they are brainless; hence also dangerous, for they would puncture a male Figure upon collision. Quaint rules for women result. Society is ranked...
...President strode from his cabin bedroom, gave one last sigh as he gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain, took one last peek into the woods around White Pine Camp. Then he awakened Mrs. Coolidge and they drove to the railroad station with the Bartons, without their breakfast coffee...
...gazed at fog-covered St. Regis Mountain...
...motor trucks. Huge "bombers" and darting "pursuit planes" soared aloft-they were only toy balloons towed by motorcyclists. Great "howitzers" and "field guns" rumbled past-they were made of wood. Finally 25,000 soldiers marched, skirmished and countermarched amid clouds of "poison gas"-the gas was a nonpoisonous chemical fog, the latest invention of German scientists. Thus the traditional autumn maneuvres of the German army took place last week with vivid realism, despite the disarming of Germany under the Treaty of Versailles...
...winner of last year's Pulitzer Speed Trophy; at Washington, D. C., of spinal meningitis. Lieutenant Bettis' fatal illness was due to inflammation of the nerve sheaths due to injuries received a fortnight ago when his plane crashed against a mountain near Lewistown, Pa. in a fog (TIME, Sept...