Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Located near the South Pole of the sky, the "cloud" is estimated to be more than a hundred million light years distant from earth. It is in the shape of a narrow stream, probably fifty million light years long by twenty million light years across. Its members are visible only through very powerful telescopes...
...customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...
...Modern air engines have cowlings which both improve streamlining and help cool the engine by concentrating the air taken in at the front. Engines need cooling most when taking off, for then they are generally turning over at full power. But air-speed is slow then, so the stream of cooling air is not so effective as it is later when the plane is flying faster but when the engine needs less cooling because it is throttled down. To meet these shifting conditions the NACA has devised a shifting cowling with two nose slots. Air enters around the propeller...
Like tides of mortal seas, the flowing stream...
...must hold tight to legal prescriptions and procedures, trust only to leaders committed by instinct and belief to the defense of civil liberties, and deal summarily with those who band together to destroy them. We must guard zealously the rights of our scholars and teachers to carry forward the stream of civilized thought . . . and protect the rights of assembly and speech and the freedom of the press...