Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opus, A Study of History, is six volumes long already, arrived in the U.S. to work on the final three volumes. Why did he think his work (in condensed form) had become a U.S. bestseller? "It's very funny," he admitted. "Maybe because . . . America was entering the main stream of history and Americans wanted to know more about...
...into the urn of ashes, swirled it, then slowly poured the mixture into the water.* Gandhi's soul, according to Hindu belief, was at last free from its mortal prison. At the same moment, milkmen of nearby Allahabad, in a unique tribute, poured barrels of milk into the stream...
Ever since the end of the war, a steady stream of reports on German research has flowed into U.S. industry. Last week the Office of Technical Services offered more such "reparations": microfilms of documents prepared by German scientists themselves. Packed with detailed drawings, research results, minutes of technical meetings, the microfilms contain the compressed know-how of Germany's famed and closemouthed industries. Eventually they will cover the whole range of German research, from synthetic fuels to plastic dental fillings. Price of the first film (wartime developments in aluminum processing...
...Offhand, the picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned in the Rahway River. His mother said that he was always slipping away to watch the river. "It utterly fascinated him," she said...
Lean, velvet-voiced Eric Sevareid quit as CBS's Washington bureau chief to give full time to newscasting, and tossed a few hard words over his shoulder: "Radio reporting is superficial [and] sloppy. The stream runs purer than in newspaper reporting but not so deep. Radio reporters . . . know that they won't be able to use more than a few lines in most stories [so] they quit digging. I think I'd be happier writing for print...