Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince, ensconced at the Valentine's Brook jump, the cheered host, others of high and low degree saw the sun burst through the clouds, do its belated best. Thirty-seven horses started the agonizing 4½-mile chase. Over stone fence, green hedge, wide ditch and stream, they charged. One by one, sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle, Bovril III, 100-to-1 shot leading, closely pressed by Keep Cool and ten-year-old favorite Sprig. At this point Sprig lent...
...Gray Day," a work by George Bellows, should prove to be an unusually powerful piece of delineation. It represents workmen by a turbulent stream, and if it possesses any of the force displayed in Bellows lithographs of the ring which have attracted much attention lately, it is a picture not to be missed...
...once a student of mine, but I care little for his latest opus. Last week I said of it: 'There never was a minister like Elmer Gantry. . . . My grandfather and father were Baptist ministers. All my living brothers are Baptist ministers and there has been a constant stream of Baptist ministers walking through my house for years.... I have never known one like Elmer Gantry. It [the book] was obviously written by Sinclair Lewis when he was in a rage. The author was literally foaming at the mouth...
...column above the earth and at night the bald moon looked unpleasantly red, and the stars, shorn of their rays by the mist, loomed out like the heads of copper nails, while the water in the river reflected the troubled sky and gave one the impression of a stream of thick, subterranean smoke...
...spring the very young man's fancy turns to thoughts of concentration. To aid but not to direct this stream of consciousness is the CRIMSON's purpose in offering a series of articles, the first of which deals with the field of Economics and is written by Professor Carver...