Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack had hardly been consummated when from the Republican side Major-General Reed of Pennsylvania leaped into a fighting plane and pursued the Borah bomber with a stream of machine gun bullets: "I wonder whether the time may not some day come when the self-chosen advocate of the farmer's cause will himself realize the truth that we are advantaging the American-farmer as we increase the prosperity of the cities of America...
Last week the Council and Mr. Davis announced a bold solution of Russia's cotton problem. Into the vast parched plain known as the Golodnaya Steppes or "Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions...
...members could wield over institutions which refused to conform to the regulations. In the past few years there have been several ruptures of relations between colleges caused by disagreement on eligibility rules, notably that between Army and Navy, which would have had some other results than the long stream of recriminations had such a league with a few basic requirements been functioning...
Detour, construction ahead! or--pass at your own risk, soft shoulders; it rests with the Gods just when the tortuous stream of steaming tar that winds its devious way about the yard may come of age and sink back into that desirable state of intractable resistance. The new "Route 208" or the recommended Socony medium of travel between Widener and wherever you intend to go, represents a new era in the development of the historic old yard; a graceful bow to the commercialism of the present day in the form of laundry, pressing and cleaning, delivery wagons of all sizes...
...highest commands. Over their heads will often pass, though perhaps less frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating experience confirms the policy of the school. There flows thence a stream of young men who carry from the school into the business world professional standards, a genuine respect for the intellectual and moral requirements of modern business and a continuing thirst and capacity for knowledge. These are the subalterns whom experience fashions into commanders. These are the men who have made themselves...