Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this re-attainment of perspective, a movement looking toward the sane use of a good thing, the faculty of the Harvard Law School should take the lead. The students should not be left to cut through the fog alone. To ignore or belittle the problem or discourage its discussion cannot in any event suppress its open agitation much longer. The experience of the men who have to use the casebooks demands a fair and candid re-examination of the rational basis of the case system and its re-evaluation with reference to the separate subjects to which it is applied...
Childishly simple in conception, couched in free verse, the libretto wallows in German sentimental-realism. Fog, snow, the hum of the motor, the ships at sea are all personified. The hero sings...
...verse proceeds, Lindbergh describes all of his equipment, and his goal. The City of New York asks ships at sea to watch for him. The Empress of Scotland answers that she has sighted him. The fog cries out: "I am the fog, turn about." Lindbergh retorts: "That will I not." The snow storm speaks, says it has tried to destroy him, to bury him in the waters of the Atlantic. A typical passage...
...specific farm plan loomed up out of the fog of conflicting testimony. These facts, though, were developed...
...Black (Irish) and Davies (Welsh)?were paid weekly from five to eight pounds apiece ($24-$38), and will receive from His Majesty personally "a substantial gift" according to an announcement last week at Buckingham Palace. About £3,000 ($14,580) was spent to install the special anti-fog machinery which purified the air in George V's bed- room (TIME, Dec. 17), and was considered indispensable in saving his life. To set up a special pharmacy in the Palace and keep it staffed day and night with the most expert drug dispensers cost...