Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weaving of freedom is a struggle of law against lawlessness, of individual liberty against domination, of unity against sectionalism, of truth and honesty against demagoguery. . . . The abuse of politics often muddies the stream of constructive thought and dams back the flow of well-considered action...
...Dahlberg's novel records everything that the man who wrote the introduction for it hated D. H. Lawrence sees in "Bottom Dogs" savage America conquered and subdued as the expense of the instinctive, and intuitive sympathy of the human soul . . . the collapse of the flow of spontaneous warmth between a man and his fellows. No one could read this book without having the realization flash across his mind that all is not well in this nation of Prohibition and Listerine advertisements...
Pilots flying the night mail through fog and rain that blanket all ground lights, follow a trail of dots and dashes which flow from radio range-beacons into their earphones. But sounds are sometimes deceiving, subject to radio interference. Skill is required to compare the relative strength of opposing signals. And at 15-minute intervals the guiding stream of signals are interrupted completely for broadcast weather reports...
Thus physicists delving into regions forbidden to most individuals have brought back new concepts. Latest concept, announced last week: Time is not a one-way flow, running from past to future, but a two-way quantity running in both directions...
Bride 68 (Tobis). With dialog part English and part German, injected at intervals, usually with the effect of interrupting rather than heightening the rapid, graphic flow of visual imagery, this picture deals with men and women in Australia during the gold rush. The men worked in a harsh country, with a fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over...