Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky was his own best celebrator. In Toronto last week he shuffled to the podium, looking owlishly like Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and conducted the CBC Symphony in some of the best music to flow from his pen in years...
...when the Chaplins were indulging their habit of flickering a Chaplin film on the portable screen, ten-year-old Victoria asked: "Is that my grandfather?" Victoria herself never stops acting. If Charlie tells her to laugh, she can howl uproariously; when he tells her to cry, tears well and flow...
Only last fall the Agriculture Department condemned the potato to the ignominious chore of feeding livestock in order to reduce a heavy surplus. Then a disappointing European harvest started an unexpected flow of U.S. potatoes abroad...
...Boston newspapers was eye-catching enough : illustrated by a drawing of Paul Revere and his horse caught in bumper-to-bumper auto traffic, it called for development of a modern rapid transit system to reduce the flow of cars into congested downtown Boston. But what really caught Boston's eye was the name of the man who paid for the ad: dynamic Robert M. Jenney, 43, whose 150-year-old Jenney Manufacturing Co. makes its money selling gasoline at 600 service stations throughout New England. Harvardman ('41) Jenney concedes that his appeal runs against his company...
Mothers at Work. Today's precocious children, titillated by the flow of sultry romance from television, movies and cheap magazines, tend to develop a distorted picture of reality. For another thing, there has been a continuous movement toward an earlier beginning of puberty in the last 100 years. In the U.S., for example, the average age of menarche (the time of a girl's first menstrual period) has come down from 14-plus in 1900 to 12-plus today. Thus the earlier physical maturity in girls, combined with early dating and going steady (which many of them equate...