Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young sailor home from two years of active service sat listening in the gallery. All day long, like steam from a kettle, coils of debate had risen endlessly from the floor of the House of Representatives. The House was now preparing to vote on the same anti-poll tax bill that had been filibustered to death by a group of Southern Senators at the close of the 77th Congress (TIME...
...first session of Yale's new School of Alcohol Studies. Guiding spirit of the school is Yale's witty Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard (TIME, June 29), professor of applied physiology, prominent U.S. exponent of the thesis that alcohol should be considered as calmly and scientifically as steam or potatoes...
...VIII had six wives." Hen-rose's eyes were, as usual, fixed on a test tube, searching for "the slightest trace of the white precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty Officer Cook had turned a valve, and "steam as hot as red-hot iron" had emerged from the ship's boilers at 400º and heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer O'Flaherty was delicately keeping a director sight upon the foremast of the enemy flagship: "With every microscopic variation...
...starter, a fine turn-of-the-century circus parade. While the band blared A Bicycle Built for Two and After the Ball, boys & girls rode their tandems and dandies strutted. Then came wild beasts in gilded cages, plumed horses, heavy-footed elephants, white-faced clowns, a singing steam calliope...
...Cugat and Machito. With the latter's band, big, bull-like Valdes recently recorded an album of his guarachas (risque ballads) and pregons (street-vendor songs) for Decca. He sings in a variety of moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where he made such a hit that one of the nightly...