Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good reason. He is not there." Proving that he was somewhere, Churchill replied that parties changed their programs more often than he did, but added, with magnificent understatement, "I have a tendency against which I should perhaps be on my guard; it is to swim against the stream...
...been well said that "he who drinks from one occupied in learning drinks from a running stream; he who learns from one who has already learned all he has to teach, drinks the 'green mantic of the stagnant pool...
Churchill and Garner are alike as a blade of grass is like an oak, as a stream is like the ocean, as a pebble is like a mountain, and as a pin is like the Washington Monument. In about these proportions...
...Modern Medicine, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton and associates* of the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn* announced a new method of treating the "constant, excruciating, burning, boring" headaches of chronic alcoholics. When the system is flooded with alcohol, large amounts of histamine, a protein derivative, pour into the blood stream. Somehow, said the doctors, the histamine expands blood vessels in the head, causes hangover headaches. Strangely enough, they found that "immunizing" injections of minute quantities of histamine brought permanent relief to 65 patients, no improvement to ten patients...
...Which occurs when, as a result of climbing too steeply, the smooth flow of air over wing tops becomes disturbed, destroys their lifting power. Wing slots admit a stream of air to the wing top through vents in the leading edge of the wings...