Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of the court, and the committee, in denying citizenship to pacifists, have set at nought the principle of freedom of thought, supposedly a foundation stone of the constitution. They have discriminated in favor of illiterate aliens who are rushed through the naturalization process in a steady stream, taking the oath either without realizing its significance or without ever intending to fulfill it. In their zeal against those who are honestly opposed to war, they have deprived the nation of many citizens of a superior type which it most needs. Finally, they have set up a legislative barrier...
...helium nucleus of four protons is clumsy chain-shot for atomic bombardment. Drs. Tuve, Hafstad & Dahl now surpass radium by shooting single protons from their gun. By means of a cloud chamber they are now able to see and photograph the stream of protons from their machine. The effect looks like a stubby shaving brush with bristles 1.6 in. long. Each bristle is the path made by a proton only one 10,000th of null millionth of an inch in diameter...
...thought then all was up. I tried frantically to keep my head above the surface. I thought crazily it was all up. And then I struck some sort of a hook in the stream with my hands. I clung...
...teaching Author Zweig concludes: "Freud has done marvels, but there remain other marvels still to do. Now that his art of interpretation has revealed to the mind its hidden bonds, we await others who will once more disclose to it its own freedom, showing it how to stream out of its own confines into the universe...
Most moods, most occasions must be rather grisly affairs to find these tales sympathetic. Of them Translator Samuel Putnam writes: "Here were no tragedies of the adamant will in self-ruinous conflict with an ineluctable Fate. Here, rather, was a disheartened and disheartening abandonment to the stream of an ignoble destiny." Maestro Pirandello considers Europe "senile, full of animated corpses." He writes of its brownstone-fronted society as if he smelled a rat, as if the rat had been dead a considerable length of time...