Word: fountain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Torrents poured in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Down went the flood waters of Cherry Creek to Denver. Down went swollen Fountain Creek at Colorado Springs, rolling eight feet deep in the residential section, drowning a man and woman on the roof of their sedan. The floods spread to Colorado's Sugar Bowl, rushed into Nebraska by way of the South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished...
...louder grows the murmur that men are afraid to teach, driven away from the student by the intense pressure to produce tangible results from the laboratory. This pressure arises from the official belief that instructors will be intellectually dead at forty if they cannot drink deep of the fountain of perpetual youth that flows in the laboratory and the stacks. With some instructors this is true. But as a substitute for an intelligent personal estimate of each individual by his fellow workers, this principle can only end in failure. Four out of five men in every sciences department will testify...
...control the vast crowds which filled London's sidewalks and streets all night was both impossible and unnecessary. On the vast marble base of the Victoria Monument directly in front of Buckingham Palace a working class family camped elaborately, the husband shaving himself with brush dips into the fountain, then lighting an alcohol stove almost beneath Queen Victoria's marble nose and cooking the family breakfast...
...clock sounds, more preoccupied intellectuals-for-a-day appear on the sidewalk, nervously testing the points of their pencils or considering the ink supply of their fountain pens; some glance momentarily at crumpled sets of notes, then thrust them back into their pockets, apparently overwhelmed by the immensity of knowledge and the frailty...
...Fountain Pens: One Rose Coloured Waterman Fountain Pen; One Duofold Jr. Fountain Pen; One Wallace Fountain Pen, Black...