Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spleen, lying just under the lowest left rib, is a kind of junkman of the blood stream. It collects worn-out blood cells, breaks them up and sends the debris to the liver. Marvin Goodman's spleen, ten times oversize, destroyed his red blood cells with mad indiscrimination. As a result, he became anemic. His skin turned yellow, then green. His weight fell from 150 lb. to 90 lb. in six months. He obviously was dying of hemolytic jaundice...
From the Midwest: "As was the case in the South under the cotton program, small towns in the corn-hog belt are feeling the first effect of the corn-hog benefit payments and improved farm prices. From the smaller towns, the money percolates in a steady and increasing stream to the larger trade centres...
City; Harold L. Drimmer '35, Mt Vernon, N. Y.; Arthur M. Fields, Jr. '36, New York City; Bernard German '36, Newark, N. J.; Dayton W. Hull '35, Rochester, N. Y.; Andrew Kacmarcyk '36, Long I. City, N. Y.; Lawrence O. Lobdell '35, Valley Stream, N. Y.; Branford P Millar '35, Warsaw, N. Y. Edward C. Malewitz '36, Trenton...
...baffled onlookers were made of sterling stuff. Howling with rage, a few of the nimbler spirits began to scale the palings around the dock. Like a frightened gazelle, our hero, resourceful as ever, ran to the end of the float, pushed the log into the middle of the stream, untied the Leviathan, and pushed off just as the enemy swarmed over the fence and advanced in skirmish formation. Paddling vigorously with his hands, he was soon in midstream, and was nearing his prize when of a sudden his progress was stopped, for unhappily he had forgotten to untie the stern...
...burros to peddle through muddy streets for as much as $1.50 per gal. "Caramba!" would cry astonished Juan Miguel Aguirre if he could return to San Francisco next week to see one of the world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite National Park, early travelers found a unique canyon, gouged from solid granite by eons of glacial grinding and the swift rush of the Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before...