Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going out from England want to do agricultural work. . . . The spirit of pioneering in other lines must be encouraged." When Pigfancier Baldwin's emotional appeal had received a thorough scanning in Australia, Planefancier Bruce declared with coldest logic: "I unhesitatingly reaffirm my great desire for an ever increasing flow of British people into Australia, but the flow must be conditioned upon its quality and upon our power of absorption. . . . Australia is not going to undermine her national health by lowering the standards of fitness of immigrants. . . ." Loyal citizens of the Empire put quickly out of mind this undignified squabble...
...employes, stockholders, of the General Motors Corporation, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance (see P. 34). Memorable, also, was the test of an oil well owned by the Skelly Oil Co. in the Hendrick Pool, Winkler County, Texas. Estimating its flow at 900 barrels an hour, officials hailed the gusher as the country's largest. Memorable was the rise of retail beef prices in Chicago, bringing porterhouse to 80 and 90? a pound, sirloins to 45 and 55?, rounds to 40 and 45?. Butchers foresaw, with alarm, a possible return...
...facts, that only 2½% of the Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...
...world's climates. Dr. Julius Hann of the University of Vienna, published his hand book in 1883, an edition of which was later translated into English by Professor Ward. When Dr. Hann died, the study had to be continued by someone else, for climatology needs a constant flow of new data to keep it abreast of the times. Professor Koppen took up the work in Europe, while the task of preparing the chapters of North America fell to the lot of Professor Ward and his associate, Professor Brooks of Clark University...
...Dramatic Club has caught now and again the vivid quality that Flecker wove into his lilting verse, the subtle thread of his thoughts. Caught it occasionally in the scenery, occasionally in flashes of deftly read lines, but more often in the incidental music and the quick flow of large masses of players. Something of the singing quality of the lines Professor F. C. Packard has infused into the play by some very acute direction. Of the players, Miss Doris Sanger is most effective, but Mr. Leatherbee as the romantic Rafl, Mr. Perry as the Caliph and Mr. Harrington as Hassan...