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Word: stream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intake is at Parker Dam on the Colorado River, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam. Five pumping stations raise the stream high enough to get over or through the mountains. Downhill gravity flow takes care of most of the route. There are 38 tunnels totaling 108 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waterboys | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...North America during the 25,000 years since the glaciers receded. As beavers still do, they built dams. When one pond filled up they went a little farther upstream and built another. When the whole valley was a series of muddy terraces the beavers went off to another stream. Then the stream broke through the dams one by one and carried a huge load of silt down to the bottom of the valley, forming an alluvial plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beavers at Troy | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...according to Ford Madox Ford, is Dorothy Richardson, a 56-year-old, myopic Englishwoman. During the past 23 years she has published eleven volumes (eight in the U. S.) of a lifework called Pilgrimage. Ford ranks her with Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf as an inventor of the "stream of consciousness" technique, believes her obscurity is due to critics' and readers' distaste for distinguished writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cagey Subconsciousness | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Joyce and Proust made valuable contributions to modern psychology by their "stream of consciousness." Dorothy Richardson, reducing the stream to a trickle, merely furnishes psychologists with another hard case to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cagey Subconsciousness | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...other five which scrimmaged against the Stahleymen was composed of Chet Legg and Rick Rabenold as forwards, Bill Humes at the pivot post, and Sam White and Doug MacLeod at the guard spots. Fran Simpson and Bill McSweeney also saw service as reserves sent in to face the stream of first year men used by Stahley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Speeds Practice For MIT Opener | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

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