Word: cloudly
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...world wide agreement on the general principle that Germany should be made to pay as much as possible without financial collapse. The difficulty comes in determining how much that much is Germany on her part has made no New Year resolves and has vested control in throwing up a cloud of paper money behind which to mask the true state of her finances...
...moment of quiet between, the halves even those most biased can applaud the captains. In the attractive age of classic mythology these men would be heroes, eternally sung. In the age of the Church they would be ranked with the saintly, "cloud of witnesses". Neither conceptions have much appeal to this age which rather feels it is a question of ideas, an that the sparks from the anvils of many workers have at last lit a cleansing fire which promises to destroy the evils that they hated and leave the air unpolluted, undisturbed, as they would have...
...universities cannot amicably settle a difference comparatively as trivial as the present one, then, and only then, is it time for more drastic action. Harvard and Princeton have too much in common; their horizon is too large to be obscured by one small cloud...
...advantage in conducting his campaign. If the Alps are in his way, the modern tactician usually does not attempt to scale them with his A's and B's and other white elephants, but maps out his course over a smoother ground. He sees ahead of him the threatening cloud of examinations, he is appalled by its menacing aspect, and he seeks protection along the more sheltered road of Geology or Astronomy. Even after making his start on the Appian Way of the Classics, be turns aside from the general examination on the Bible, Shakespeare, Dante, and Goethe, and walks...
...cleared up effectively. A class which decided to have official leaders chosen each year would commit itself definitely and there would be an end to the excuses of "not knowing the candidates." If on the other and the decision was to have no Sophomore or Junior officers, the cloud of criticism about "lack of spirit" and "indifference" would disappear. In either case, this miserable, dismal farce of the annual middle class elections would be stopped...