Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady flow of students in and out of the basement emporium yesterday, splitting into four lines which made the longest wait about twenty minutes as opposed to last year's fiasco which found hopeful fans shivering on Quincy Street sidewalks for upwards of two hours...
...greatest attributes of the ERP lies in the freedom of economic action granted each nation. But this trust in the financial ability of each nation will mean little to Europeans when the state Department insists on national purification before the flow of dollars. The avowed purpose of Mr. Harriman's project is to renew confidence in democratic government and to build a European buffer against Russia. Any ill-advised plan to cut off every country smudged by Communism can only serve to defeat these purposes...
...radioactive atoms in concrete cylinders and drop them into the ocean. No good, says Rose: in 100 years or so the cylinders might break open and discharge their still radioactive atoms. Another proposal: bury the atoms deep in abandoned caves. But they might be dissolved by underground water, flow out and spread the atoms as rain...
...degrees. Figures such as Albert Einstein lend the stature of their thought. But "the most important thing that can come out of the Institute," wrote then director Frank Aydelotte in 1943, "is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, so much as the general flow of attitudes toward study and research which can seep down to the very roots of education. Our purpose is to be of the utmost possible service to general American scholarship...
...attempt was made to build a new edifice on the site until the General Court authorized a state-wide lottery in 1794 to raise money for the building. Started in 1804, the new Stoughton Hall was completed a year later, and officially named in 1806. It watched the years flow by gracefully, housing Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, until the night of December 15, 1870, when its prim, Puritan peace was disturbed by the explosion of a bomb under the floor of Room...