Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruiser Seattle, bearing Admiral Coontz, Commander of the United States Fleet, went aground off Marrowstone Point in Puget Sound during a dense fog. Pulled off by tugs, she proceeded under her own power to the Puget Sound Navy Yard...
Fame in the headlines and temporary paralysis were the coin of pay- ment received by Carbis A. Walker, Cleveland citizen, for swimming Lake Erie. He propelled himself 33 miles, some of the time in fog and rough water, in 20 hours and 15 minutes...
...Henderson with the President aboard, stopped next at Juneau, capital of the territory. As the transport steamed into the bay, she had planned to fire a few five-inch shells into Taku Glacier, so that the President could witness the great ice precipices crumbling and falling into the sea. Fog settled down, however, and the firing could not be attempted...
Nothing was said about the remaining traffic which is obliged to travel at a snail's pace, owing to the impenetrable density of the fog...
...fog is a soot-laden white mist of great weight. Owing to the warmth of the ground and the consequent lighter pressure the fog descends from its chilly couch in the skies-that is, when there is no wind to blow it away-and covers the earth until the heat gradually dissipates it. Were it not for the soot, the mist would probably be dissipated by the surface heat as it descended...