Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world as the valley of the Mississippi. On the contrary, few white men have ever penetrated it. Here are the scenes of all sorts of fantastic romances, like Conan Doyle's The Lost World and W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions. Here is the fascinating stream called the Casiquiare, reputed to flow both ways and to connect the Rio Negro, largest northern tributary of the Amazon, with the Orinoco. Here nations have not yet ceased to dispute each other's boundaries, for no one is quite sure of what is here. To bring order out of this...
...stream of visitors who come to spend a few brief-hours in the vicinity of Harvard Yard, and then pass on their critical way leaving burning comment behind them, it is unusual to find a man with the geniality of the Reverend Vivian T. Pomeroy, who was this week's speaker at Appleton Chapel. Mr. Pomeroy fears that he is not fully equipped to comment on University affairs, which places him at once among the immortal few who, like Socrates, know their own limitations...
...thoroughly American and determined in her admiration of things Nordic. A great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, she is not far from the stream of American literary tradition. Her sense of plot is extraordinary. This journalistic ability is especially evident in Black Oxen, although I'm not sure that I consider that indubitably readable book exactly in Ben Franklin's line...
...year proves no exception. Funds released from the heavy borrowings for the holiday trade and year- end settlements are seeking investment. Money rates have been somewhat weak and symptoms of a rise in bond prices ?a good sign of lowering interest rates ?have been apparent. Still the stream of gold imports flows into our Federal Reserve banking system, whose ratios are at record levels...