Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McCrary figured that the TV audience was ready for something different from the vaudeville routines offered by the Hooperating leaders (Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan). "TV eats up material so fast," he reasoned, "that the only dependable source is the day-to-day flow of news." Mixing the techniques of newsreel, theater and movies, McCrary developed an ambitious show called Preview, a "magazine of the air," which Philip Morris sponsored. Last month, Preview went...
...Work, she says: "Looking at Diego . . . you immediately think of a boy frog standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that of an aquatic animal. Only his hands and face are darker, the sun having burnt them. His baby shoulders, narrow and round, flow without angles into feminine arms and end in marvelous hands, small and of delicate design ... His huge stomach, drawn tight and smooth as a sphere, rests on strong legs . . . that end in large feet pointing outward in an obtuse angle as if to take in all the earth ... He sleeps...
Under the guiding hand of Housemaster David M. Little '17, Adams consistently throws some of the largest formal dances of the year, and an active house committee contrives a steady flow of Saturday night informal dances. Adams was one of the first Houses to pack its common room with television spectators, and the first to campaign for an automatic launderer in the basement. It has a complete darkroom, harbors a wobbly ping-pong table, and has a fellow in the lobby who sells magazines, candy...
Natural Reservoirs. The object of the new dams on the headwaters is to even out the flow, holding water in reservoirs during the flood season, and letting it out when needed. Luckily for Egypt, the reservoirs are already half built. On the main tributaries, the Blue and White Niles, there are big lakes that need only dams at their outlets to turn them into ideal storage basins...
...built on the White Nile will be at Owen Falls, at the outlet of Lake Victoria. Another will make a reservoir out of Lake Albert. When the whole system is in operation, the water of the White Nile can be held back while the Blue Nile is flowing. The system is expected to smooth out the flow of the lower Nile through Egypt and increase the cultivated area by 1,500,000 acres...