Word: cloudly
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...usually reduced to cataloguing of the customs of the inhabitants and the birds and animals seen. Evidently the writer realizes his weakness for he makes gallant attempts to raise his style to more inspired heights by the interjection of eloquent rhapsodies that unfortunately end by losing themselves in a cloud of meaningless adjectives...
...Director of Athletics under trying circumstances. Harvard's record in intercollegiate sport was at a low ebb which made the alumni thoroughly dissatisfied with the conduct of the athletic program and disinclined to contribute to its support. More than this, the name of college sport itself was under a cloud of criticism from persons who thought it harmful to the true purposes of a university; at Harvard this criticism was especially strong. If Mr. Bingham has brought harmony and helpful understanding--and he certainly has--out of discord and confusion, his success is due in no small measure...
Leroy S. Buffington, in 1830, was a young Minneapolis architect with an idea. He had conceived a building which he called a "cloud scraper." Simple was the construction principle ? a steel skeleton with a shelf at each floor to hold the sur face masonry. He took out patents on it. Since then, almost every skyscraper in the world has been built on Mr. Buffington's principle. Last week, Architect Buffington, 89, received a check for $2,250 as royalties on the construction on the 25-story Rand Building, in Minneapolis. It was the first time, despite eleven infringement suits...
...planetesimal, he ex pounded again in a new book published only last month - The Two Solar Families - the Sun's Children (University of Chicago Press, $2.50). In brief his theory is this : Eons ago a Star, swished near the Sun and by its gravity, sucked a great, explosive cloud of gases from the gaseous Sun. The cloud twirled out into interstellar space, following the Star for a way, until the Star's gravitational pull on the cloud became less than the Sun's. By that time the particles of the gases-hydrogen, oxygen, helium, iron...
...cloud of ashes blotted the stars, the moon. Waves of heat shot from the mountain and the air choked with sulphur and acid fumes. . . . Farmyard beasts screeched. Cats, fascinated, stood fast facing Etna's black jelly until it caught their fore paws. Then the cats could not drag themselves free, could not bound away. Birds swooped inquisitively towards the moving earth, were paralyzed by the heat and vapors, tumbled down into the mess. Lava buried...