Word: stream
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Citizen Alfred Emanuel Smith and friends were occupying the penthouse on Palm Beach's Whitehall Hotel (home of the late Henry M. Flagler). Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...
...carpet were called the Island Kingdom's foremost capitalists, the Directors of the Bank of Iceland. They did not come shivering, for the kindly Gulf Stream makes Reykjavik winters temperate. In fact "Iceland" is a complete misnomer for a land abounding in volcanoes and hot springs (many a farmer warms his house with hot water radiators piped directly from his spring). But though the Directors of the Bank of Iceland did not come shivering they came shamefaced...
Nonetheless, the Manhattan show contained many an eye-filling exhibit. Vivid colors, big bulks, graceful stream lines satisfied even the veriest tyro. Towering over other ships on the main floor was the Burnelli Flying Wing. Adjacent was the latest Aeromarine Klemm amphibian, also manufactured by the Uppercu-Burnelli group...
...entirely new theory of language which seeks to put the "stream of spoken language" on a physical, psychological, and mathematical basis, and to connect it with current theories of relativity, has been advanced by Mr. G. K. Zipf 4G in a thesis which will appear in the present issue of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology...
...photography itself is like an intelligence greater than the sum of the minds that worked to make it. Whatever is seen through the camera has the novelty, strength and directness that the same images might have as they flowed in the thought-stream, rapid and silent, of some vigorous, original mind. Best shot: the War in Filimonov's tortured memory symbolized as a vision of himself as a Russian soldier, meeting and recognizing himself at an intersection of searchlights as a German soldier; then his own image again, as captain of a battery, receiving and executing the order that blows...