Word: overcast
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...Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present the air of Massachusetts is filled with a dark brown taste, and the sky is overcast. A Princeton catalogue makes good reading...
...much the same as the sextant that John Hadley invented in 1731.* Every noon at sea he goes up on the bridge and measures the angle the sun and the horizon make in the instrument, which gives him by logarithmic formula his position. When the sun is overcast, his sextant is useless. Last week in Manhattan navigators were impressed by the first major improvement since 1731 in the sextant, demonstrated for the first time...
...were graceful and more colorful than his paintings, which had the air of East Indian fashion plates. With pardonable bias, Muralist Diego Rivera, for whom Covarrubias once lugged water jugs in Mexico City, said: "Covarrubias has now reached the age at which a man's face occasionally becomes overcast and in which his work grows in profundity...
Last week the Greater New York district R. F. A. held its picnic in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. It was an overcast, showery day. Few attended besides the organizing committee and the family of grey-mustached, bespectacled Dr. Henry Oscar Rockefeller, national president of the R. F. A. Perhaps because of the weather, there was no hilarity. The picnic at Troy, N. Y. last year heard Grace F. Rockefeller speak on "Rockefellers in the Battle of Saratoga." The fourth district (New Jersey) often listens to an entire family of Rockefeller musicians. Sample game played in the second district...
Hanover N. H. Oct. 22--Under heavily overcast skies the Dartmouth football team went through its second strenuous practice session...