Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About four miles from Spring Green, Wis., the hills splay into two soft ranges to let a fast stream flow toward the Wisconsin River. Facing southwest over this valley a big, long house folds around the summit of one hill, its roof lines parallel to the line of ridges, its masonry the same red-yellow sandstone that crops out in ledges along the stream. Under snow the house melts easily into the landscape. Its name is Taliesin, a Welsh word meaning...
...charity but an undeclared war of increasing bitterness caused this lavish dispersal. Ever since the British joined in voting League Sanctions against Italy during the Ethiopian crisis, the Italian short-wave radio station at Bari has poured out an unending stream of anti-British propaganda in Arabic, intended to teach all Moslem nations that the British Empire was falling to pieces, that Benito Mussolini was a proper protector for Islam...
...indifference to such carryings-on. Don't believe it. The reason for Harvard's unique social existence is that it lies but eight minutes by subway from Boston, a city with a notable absence of night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream of debuts and assemblies, as the "Friday Evenings" at the Hotel Somerset, keeps the average Harvard man busy and gay. Harvard men monopolize Boston parties. Therefore they can see no reason to start rival parties of their own in Cambridge...
...last month he drew up a polite bill of complaint against the physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were...
...Canada," he continued, "every kid plays hockey from the time he can walk. That's why the Leafs can profitably have such a quick turnover; there's always a stream of fresh material coming up. Why, hockey's their national game, just as baseball is ours...