Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before being able to identify land beneath them through the snow. Gauging their position by the shore line, they found Barrow and landed with the snow drifting waisthigh. Blizzards and fog had kept them there six days before they could start back to Fairbanks...
...been omitted, most of the discussion is simple and easily understood, and the book should stimulate an interest in atmospheric phenomena among those who do not care to make a real study of the subject. Some beautiful half-tones, mostly of clouds, but also including a few of frost, fog, and lightning and an especially good one of a corona, certainly add to the interest of the book. The press-work and the binding, it is hardly necessary to add, are above reproach...
...dissipate in some degree the "moral and social fog" occasioned by loose thinking, the "Forum" has announced a definition contest to clarify such toil-worn terms of elastic meaning as "Americanism", "progress", "tolerance", and "propaganda". Although it would be impossible to cage all the connotations of a word or to halt its manipulation by argumentative proponents of social doctrine. It may still be possible to establish the mainspring of its sense and to relate its varied uses there...
Whether the possession of a more definite vocabulary will clear the "fog" of loose thinking is another matter. To a certain extent, loose thinkers are born not to be unmade. There are many people to whom intellectual curiosity concerning an implication they wish to believe, is a positive desecration. On the other hand, to those who are concerned with reaching convictions by conscious use of the syllogism, it will be very interesting to discover the whimsical tricks words can play in the mouths of other people...
...weather man announced late last night that the usual condition of dampness would hinder the players today. Cambridge was pretty well soaked this morning and was still under a heavy fog...