Word: thunderclouds
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...immediate danger to Scandinavia rolled up swiftly like a thundercloud. No Scandinavian head has lain entirely easy since Russia attacked Finland, but the new danger sprang indirectly from a humanitarian impulse. The world's heart had gone out to the Finns, and nation after nation put out a helping hand. Sooner or later Germany was certain to grow uneasy because of this world hostility to her quasi ally, Russia...
...people, the thermometer stood at 112° in the sun. At Devils Lake, N. Dak., before 9 in the morning while the crowd waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet to Drs. Charles and William Mayo, some of the spectators thought that the great Mayo Brothers were weeping. Those who stood closer saw that the rivulets upon their...
Magic Carpet. The Ryan monoplane Magic Carpet, flying through wind and rain over Chicago, disappeared into a thundercloud, tumbled out of it in a crazy spin, crashed through the top of a steel gas tank, plunged into 40 ft. of water at the bottom, killed Pilot Orville Suchy and two joyride girl passengers. European Derby. Pilot Fritz Morzik of Germany, who last year won the International Around-Europe Reliability Tour for light planes, was last week declared winner of this year's 4,750-mi. derby...
...Algiers and say: "Why, the United States Army ought to come over here and clean it up!" Mr. Tinker boasted how much finer his home town was than oldtime Timgad. Mr. Tinker rode through Africa on a camel, like a barbaric Roman potentate, "raining money like some great careless thundercloud charged with silver and gold and pouring them down...
...rigged on the ground a large plate of metal, which was in effect a section of the earth's surface. When a thundercloud hung over his plate and lightning blazed, he found by means of extremely delicate instruments that the electrical potential of the plate changed. This was the electrical image of what happened in the cloud, one surface (usually the upper) was positively charged, the other negatively. When discharge occurred...