Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come out!" screamed his eight assistants to Beatty. He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy's mane, whacked him again & again over the head. After ten minutes Sammy let go. Bessie rolled over dead...
Times. Believers agreed that the creature must have floundered up the stream which connects Loch Ness with the North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck...
...almost two centuries Holden Chapel has proudly held its place between Hollis and Stoughton, its classic walls guarded by chubby cherubs and ancient ivy. Its personal history embraces a long and diverse stream of utility from that of college chapel and moral court to a science lecture room, laboratory and museum. Revolutionary soldiers upset its interior beauty during their enoampment in Cambridge, and it has never been restored. A suitable mecca for Harvard men would be created by its restoration, a lasting token of the tercentennial celebration preserved, and the elusive but eternal sparks of a great tradition enhanced within...
...Thelma. In 1932 as president of the company he took hold of De Soto, gave it a new round radiator grill and many another feature that he, an expert salesman, wanted on the car he sold. Now he is trying to take De Soto over its highest hurdle by stream lining it like an airplane...
...Messenger. During the sword ceremony the Imperial obstetricians could hardly wait. Directly afterward they pounced reverently on the babe, meticulously ascertained that he was 50 centimetres long (about 19 3/4 in.), weighed 7 lb., 3 oz. With bumble folk kneeling outside the Palace gate in freezing weather, a stream of princes, dignitaries and ambassadors began to roll in with congratulations at 7 a. m. First to arrive were Prince and Princess Chichibu. He, as the Emperor's eldest brother, has played for years the thankless role of heir presumptive. Relieved of this by the babe, brisk Chichibu...