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Word: stream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Criticizing the "wishful thinking" of a system which restricts itself entirely to this method, Professor Ham described the present University situation for a teacher as a stream from which all the nuggets of research had been washed". But, he affirmed, "there's still gold in them thar hills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAM SLAMS EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH TREND NOW | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...entirely separate propeller shaft. This straight shaft is hollow. The superiority of the new moteur canon lies precisely in that it does not have to be "synchronized" to fire between the spinning propeller blades, as in the old-fashioned arrangement with which Reader Schrankel is familiar, but sends a stream of shells straight out through the hollow axis of the propeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...humorous business card he had printed up following one of his political defeats. The card reads: "A Lincoln, Attorney and Councillor at Law, Springfield, Ill. To Whom It May Concern. My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense Law, Make Jokes, Split Rails, and perform other matters in a small...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abe Lincoln's Rail-Splitting Axe Is Shown in Widener Civil War Exhibit | 3/3/1937 | See Source »

...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indomitable Conflagration Breaks Out Twice in Building in Harvard Square | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

...fiancé, Diego (Teddy Underdown), has claimed her and she would have married him if he had not renounced her when it seemed that Wings was going to be disqualified, leaving her dowerless. When she finds Kerry he is once more taking a bath, this time in an Irish stream. But now Marie does not mind. As a bonus with the first color picture produced in England, Producer Robert T. Kane has tossed in some songs by John McCormack, given famed Derby Jockey Steve Donoghue, six times winner of the Epsom Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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