Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still clear that the competition for Commencement speaking parts affords others than Phi Beta Kappa men opportunity for a last gesture. Many traditions that have no justification, even as adornment, in the swift life of a busy university may sink to a deserved death in the Lethe stream, but that one of the fine appurtenances of the student's farewell to his college should fall into innocuous desuetude is a condition to be deplored, and remedied...
...levied from the States benefited. President Coolidge, whose recommendation had been for a $296,400,000 program with 20% borne by the States, began the week by calculating out loud that the Committee's bill, of which the provisions were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this attack, the President assumed a role of arbitrator between Congress and the Army engineers who had told the Administration what...
...MacDonald's righteous wrath. They found it in an editorial in the Laborite Daily Herald which observed: "The "greater portion of the readers of the evening papers are members of the working class, and if the Rothermere scheme is successful, the new papers will add to the copious stream of misrepresentation of the Labor movement which issues daily from the capitalist newspapers...
Cathode Rays. Little more than a generation ago the British physicist Sir William Crookes sealed the ends of two wines in a glass tube and in the tube created a vacuum. Then he shunted a current of electricity into the wires. The current sent a stream of electrons speeding from one of the wires, the cathode. They were cathode rays and they behaved in some ways like radium, soon after to be discovered by the Curies. They made the vacuum tube glow with-brilliant fluorescence. If a piece of metal were sealed in the tube, in the path...
...stream continued flowing...