Word: thunderheads
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...withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social...
...Most dangerous are the low, dark nimbostratus (because of its poor visibility and the danger of icing) and the stormy thunderhead, cumulonimbus. Also to be avoided: the wavy, handsome billow cloud-which gives a very billowy ride...
...McCann has been a Westinghouse lightning hunter for five years. His full-time job is the study of lightning's quirks for the protection of life and property, particularly the vulnerable equipment of power companies, and-these days-explosives plants. Because he cannot always whistle up a black thunderhead to observe, between bolts he works with laboratory lightning...
...cloudy nationwide feeling built up into one need; as threatening and insistent as an August thunderhead: leadership. All talk, all possible hope of leadership came down to one man: Franklin Roosevelt. In and around and of him, were all the problems. The country wanted to be told, it wanted to be shown, it wanted to know, it wanted to be led. Most U. S. citizens conceded that aid to England, all aid short of a declaration of war, was of primary importance. All U. S. citizens agreed that the Defense Commission was primary above all things. And no one denied...
...with a shortcut, proved Leonardo partly wrong. But at the same time man did study the air, developed four types of motorless flying: gliding (coasting downward on still air); slope soaring (on rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow of a thunderhead); and thermal soaring (on rising currents of air in the open). So specialized are these techniques that a skillful soarer looks upon power flyers with the same superiority that a sailboat skipper feels towards a motor-boater...