Word: stream
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three meanings of the adjective sucio are dirty, filthy, obscene. Long ago, the natives of Salvador stigmatized one of their rivers by naming it the Rio Sucio. Last week the lower reaches of this stream near Quezaltepeque were choked with dead, floating, stinking fish. There had been, guessed geologists, a minor earthquake near the remote headwaters of El Rio Sucio...
...have been working to extract an oil from the dried fruit of the hydnocarpus tree that could safely be used in the fight against leprosy. The virtues of this oil have long been known, but its use was restricted because it blocked the veins and choked off the blood stream. Since bacillus leprae exists in the circulating blood as well as in the organs and tissues, a destructive agent that could be released directly into the blood stream was desirable. Hitherto the treatment of leprosy has consisted of injections of chaulmoogra oil into the muscles, which is a less direct...
...write a single line of praise that would presage his becoming the poet who has said the most remembered things about the President. "Drum-Taps" and its sequel did not appear until 1866. Walt Whitman said: "Lincoln is particularly my man . . . we are afloat on the same stream--we are rooted in the same ground." His words grow in presumption as the Lincoln tradition grows heartier. In the early days he had felt that they were young Lochinvars together, seeking fame in an alfen east...
...King enters, alone. He, Vittorio Emanuele III, is a little man, with sallow cheeks and greying temples. He kneels before the bed and tells his rosary, while great tears stream from his eyes. He prays softly to himself, and then, rising, steps down the stair and departs in a two-horse carriage...
Ritchie does not think it wise. "We have drifted too far down the stream of Federal centralization," he believes. Washington has become the home of a bureaucratic system, "remote from the people with burdensome, perplexing laws, lacking popular sanction, red tape and the general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles...