Word: clouding
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...closely identified with those who call themselves gentlemen." "Don't let society coddle you. What you are to do is to study what society is thinking and doing, and correct it in the places where it is wrong." " Sitting on the edge of a cloud and playing a harp does not appeal to me." " I protest against that patriotism which declares our country to be the greatest and always right, whether it is right or wrong." " The Ten Commandments should be rooted out of the Prayer Book. Too many Christians look upon them as forming the whole moral responsibility...
...miles. A great mail chamber is provided where expert sorters will do their work just as in a railway mail coach, and sleeping quarters for night flying are also included. An automatic balancing device will give the necessary stability when flying at night or in fog or cloud. While the specifications are difficult to meet, they are neither radical nor impossible and the construction of such a mailplane will be of inestimable value in commercial aviation...
There still remain things to be done. The boat race must be rowed today and the baseball game must be played tomorrow. The sky has been searched with powerful telescopes but not a cloud has been seen to break the viciously brazen arch of the heavens. Yet even if the sun continues its merciless glare and the asphalt becomes a sea of tar, the shadows of Harvard rooters will throng to the arenas of sport to cheer on their teoms. . . . "The rest is silence...
...storm-cloud at night sudden gathers...
Lausanne conferences have waxed and waned and the threat of war has lowered black on the horizon more than once. The most recent cloud, which arose over the Turkish claim for reparations, has now been turned inside out by Venizeios and Ismet Pasha, and ministers at Lausanne believe that wisps of silver can be seen without great straining of the eyes. With both parties to the argument immovable in their convictions, the obstacle at first appeared difficult. Then the other members of the conference joined the argument. Greece acknowledged the validity of the claim, Turkey accepted the gift of Karaghatch...