Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern California is the grunion, or sand-smelt (Athenmdae), a little fish that comes out on the beach at high tide, stands on its tail and dances in the moonlight. But few Cahfornians have inquired into the reason tor this strange nocturnal dance. In the May issue of Field & Stream, Fisherman Neil Frost described a grunion run, explained the dance...
...MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). From John Dos Passos-or Miguel de Cervantes-or from the blue. Author Bromfield takes his method of telling his latest tale. As the stream of narrative encounters the leading characters, the stream is diverted until the story of each character is told. Though some characters do their womanly best to quiet the stream, the modernistic hero always breaks it into ripples, rapids, finally a plunging waterfall. Pierre Radier is the love child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise...
...futility of the gradually disappearing lungfish looks to the Anglican priest like a crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in a stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin, to keep...
...pervasive are the parietal rules, which the Faculty has been meditating without result for the last six months. The swimming pool, a relic of Gold Coast days, and Adams' pride, has been modernized, and is available throughout the College year. Weekly "long table" dinners on Thursdays provide a steady stream of speakers, who have been appreciated. In contrast to the practice at certain less enterprising Houses, the Associates, a goodly list, are invited and attend. Sunday evenings a renovated Apthorp House, lined with every known book on American diplomacy, becomes the center for informal discussions of international relations. The library...
...parasites multiply and the young "microfilariae" circulate through the lymphatics, causing irritation, particularly of the eye. Any fly biting an infected person is at once a potential source of infection. The investigators discovered, however, that these Eusilium flies are so widely distributed in practically every running stream of water in the endemic districts that their eradication is practically impossible. Actual cure must come as a result of individual treatments and isolation of all infected persons...