Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally distributed in milk, but is a disease of man, not of cows. The milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis...
Bull. For four years, Wall Street has been noisier than ever before in its history. It has seen a stream of gold pouring in from abroad. Between 1923 and 1928, the U. S. exported gold worth $500,000,000, but imported $1,000,000,000. Each $1 of gold in a bank reserve means a potential $13 of credit. In four years, the U. S. in this way alone added $6,500,000,000 to its credit resources. It could finance a building boom, a Florida boom, vast instalment selling, new highways, new factories. It had enough credit to support...
...helm is Columbus O'Donnell Iselin 2nd, 24-year-old oceanographer, Harvard graduate and romanticist, son of the late Lewis Iselin. Last year, in his 76-foot fishing schooner The Chance, he dredged, collected specimens along the Labrador coast, as he had previously done along the Gulf Stream, Bermudas, Atlantic Coast...
...pretty-doll wife in style. But evidently someone else needed the percentages from the cleaners and dyers, because one night last week, after "Big Tim's" doorbell had rung and he had answered it, an automobile rolled slowly by in the dark street, spitting a mechanical stream of fire and lead. "Big Tim" died where he stood. Accustomed to gangster funerals in Chicago, the United Press issued a laconic bulletin on the Murphy ceremony before it took place. "A cortege a mile long, with scores of automobiles bearing floral tributes . . . etc., etc." But the U. P. guessed poorly. Chicago...
Wind tunnel: An elongated chamber (usually a tube) through which a steady air stream may be drawn or forced...