Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This proposition is of course indisputable. No one who has faced for four years the professorial rostrum and felt facts flow in at his ears and out at the point of his pen would for a moment deny it. It is one of the inescapable features of the system--apparently bred in its bone--that if once you stop to think you lose the thread of the professor's discourse, and the thread of a professor's discourse is not an easy thing to pick up again...
...embarked at New Orleans and arrived at Belize in British Honduras as the point of departure for their trip into the Yucatan. From Belize they took a smaller ship northward along the coast of the Yucatan peninsula, making excursions into the inland by means of the large rivers which flow out to the sea all along that coast. On one of these side trips Mr. Mason and another member of the party came down with malaria and were forced to return to Belize. The rest of the party went on without them and made a number of valuable discoveries, which...
...pure African descent. The blood of the white or yellow race does not flow in my veins. I am a Negro, a word derived appropriately from the Latin niger, meaning black, and used by the ancient Romans to indicate my ancestors who lived south of the Sahara Desert. . . . I, a veteran of the War against the Germans, am visiting America in the interest of commercial affairs. I have been north and south, closely and privately observing with an open mind. I believe that I can see the points of view of both races, and appreciate the inevitable conditions that exist...
...milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...
...were found. It is uncertain as to where they will drift, Norway being one of the most probable possibilities. The salinity of the water is a decisive factor in the causation of a current and Iselin will take water samples to discover what part this solution plays in the flow. The samples will also be examined for their contents of living organisms. All samples will be brought back to Dr. Bigelow...