Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...mask in his motor, as did the Canadians' commander, Major General Andrew George Lotto McNaughton, and other brass hats. When the gas alarm sounded during a demonstration of trench digging and barbed wire work, Minister Stanley & brass hats complacently watched the soldiers clap on masks as a white cloud rolled across the field. When the cloud reached them, Minister Stanley & brass hats broke for shelter, eyes streaming. The gas was real. "It just goes to show you," observed red-eyed Minister Stanley, "how these men are working . . . under actual war conditions...
...teaching English to foreign students formerly fell to Dudley H. Cloud, Secretary of the Committee on the Use of English, and Frederick C. Packard, Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking. This was very satisfactory when there were only one or two students who desired this training...
...Schwellenbach, Izac, Coffee, Fish, et al.-proponents of an embargo against Japan; 2) a growing group, underwritten by Secretary Morgenthau and the Export-Import Bank, which favored the roundabout maneuver of giving China a $20,000,000 credit (China had asked for $75,000,000); and 3) a sudden cloud of alarmists, frightened mainly by Columnist Walter Lippmann, who thought the risk of war was growing by the minute, but that the U. S. should hopefully do nothing...
...past is rising before the Yardlings like a cloud--a past crammed with visions of irresponsible Presidents who have made their roommates Jubilee chairmen and then kidded them playfully for running $1000 in the red. The Freshmen shiver when they hear of a former ice-cream cater, or a milk-drinker, who rose to triumph on his illgotten publicity. It's all very unfortunate, when an election should be such a fine thing, a stimulant to class interest, even a lesson in citizenship. Yes, the Freshmen are right, the old system must...
Only a big Blue Yale cloud appeared on the Princeton nautical horizon in December; but now they have begun to realize that much power lurks in unexpected places on the Crimson roster. No team has forced Coach Ulen to play all of his cards yet. The Tigers were dealt a cruel blow when academic deficiencies cost them the services of sprinter Jim Green and outstanding Sophomore backstroker Mark Follansbee for the balance of the year; and the close squeeze they experienced against Dartmouth demonstrated that troubled waters would be waiting for them in Cambridge...