Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years St. Louis has had a smoke problem. It has had a smoke commissioner ever since Lee surrendered. And it still has smoke-on windless winter days aviators flying toward the city see, rising over the skyscrapers and chimneys, a vast bulging black parachute of mixed fog and soot that blots out the world below. Suburbanites driving to work on sunny mornings switch on their car lights as they approach the business district and drive into what looks like a gigantic rusty iron wall rising from the pavement to the sky-the smoke that lies thick and russet-green under...
...reached last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 26). Then, veering to the left, the attack beat against the Finns' right flank guarding the Gulf and the fortress of Koivisto. Over the clean new snow, waves of Russians crouching behind their tanks swarmed over the Finns' weakened positions. Above the fog 200 Russian pursuit planes circled to keep off Finnish aircraft. On the 21st day of battle the Russians reached the Gulf. Koivisto was isolated...
...level of associate professor. Now the grapevine has it that two of the forgotten ten, one in. English and one in Government, have been recommended for promotion to permanent tenure. And confirmation by the Corporation and Board of Overseers seems a sure bet. This is fine. But in the fog of secrecy which shrouds academic politics, it is not clear whether these men are fair test cases, for it seems they are not to be frozen associate professors, but are being promoted via some other budgetary loop-hole...
...clock of bleak Winton Green Prison in Birmingham chimed 9. A milk delivery cart rattled down the street outside the prison walls, where 500 persons stood shivering in a cold Midlands fog...
...account rang true. Columbus had noted that as he approached the Azores the seaweed turned brown, disappeared a day before he reached port. So found Professor Morison & party 447 years later. They saw on Corvo Island in the Azores the fantastic rock formation that Columbus had seen through fog and mist and which seemed to him to point west. Twenty days from the Canaries to Trinidad-it had taken Columbus 26-convinced the seafaring Professor that Columbus was a very fine seaman, who "could get to a place and then come back and find it again when he wished...