Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this separation," droned little Mr. Bilbo, "the blood stream of the white race shall remain uncontaminated and all the . . . blessings of the white man's civilization shall forever remain the priceless possession of the Anglo-Saxon. . . . There is an overmastering impulse, a divine afflatus among the mass of the Negroes of the U. S. for a country of their...
That race showed that the Tiger oarsmen have passed through the kindergarten stage of learning a new stroke. The disturbance caused by the advent of a different style, the "Washington stroke," has calmed down and apparently Princeton rowing has finished changing horses in the middle of the stream...
Latest in the never-ending stream of De Mille productions, "Union Pacific"-- now at the Met--is like all his others in the grand scale of its theme and the fragmentary method of presentation. The cast of thousands, the romanticized history, the premeditated lavishness and panoramic effect--these are all present. But the story, which concerns the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, is amenable to this sort of treatment; and the screen version has been made with unusually great attention to detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians...
...Philip Brooks, the characters are of a somewhat higher social class (Harvard and Radcliffe, tall French windows, Atlantic Monthly) but they face a similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used...
Beaver dams are useful to man. They catch fine silt that otherwise would wash down stream. Beaver ponds may provide water for livestock, and conserve moisture in dry areas...