Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column is much like a miniature edition of the 15-minute news summary, in machine-gun stream of syllables, which Reporter Gibbons gave as a daily radio broadcast for The Literary Digest last spring. In an effort to recapture the breathlessness, the staccato note, of the Gibbons chatter, the Evening World separates the paragraphs with drawn lightning-flashes...
Almost every school child knows the Audubon Societies, has given 10? to become a junior member and receive a button with a bird on it. The Audubon State Societies, founded in 1886 by Forest & Stream (monthly magazine), were united into a national organization 29 years ago by the late William Butcher, first president. Under his guidance until 1910, the societies became the strongest, most respected conservation power in the U. S. Therefore when accusations and complaints were heard last week coming from members of the old bird-loving society itself, observers were surprised. The dissenters demanded that the organization have...
...Edward Wentworth Beatty, Canadian Pacific Railway's president. Age: 52. Date: Oct. 16. Celebration: dinner given by Canadian tycoons-Sir Herbert Holt (president, Royal Bank of Canada), Sir Charles Gordon (president, Bank of Montreal), R. S. McLaughlin (president, General Motors of Canada) et al.-at swank Montreal Forest & Stream Club...
...many bears threaten to spoil the touring in Yellowstone Park too many beavers interfere with travel in Palisades InterstatePark (New York and New Jersey). Two dozen of the nocturnal, Hooveresque rodents dammed one stream so successfully that it backed up and floodeda highway. Major W. A. Welch, the park manager and engineer, set traps, caught the entire offending colony, saved State money by transferring the animals last week to a swamp which he wanted transformed into a lake to improve the scenery...
...have lived in France ; when the War comes, both feel a duty to help. They take their children abroad, Adrian drives an ambulance, Matey helps her old friends. When they finally get home again to Rustdorf, middle age has nearly got them, but they are still happy. The Deepening Stream is a quiet book, meanders somewhat, is sometimes a little too limpidly pastoral to be believed, takes you nowhere in particular. But it was a pleasant trip...