Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...export of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. In Naples, striking bakers raided the University library and burned books. In Moscow, Atomic Scientist Peter Kapitza, variously reported purged or resting, emerged to publish a learned paper entitled: "Theoretical and Empirical Expressions for Heat Transfers in a Turbulent Stream...
...event last week so affected history's turbulent stream that British miners and Italian bakers, Irish shamrock growers and Russian scientists might never live quite the same lives again. As one Briton put it: "We went to sleep in one world and woke up ... in another...
...paste, made basically of potassium iodide, iodine and soft soap, and usually administered by doctors or midwives, is more effective, but vastly more dangerous. When the paste gets into the blood stream, as it often does, it quickly kills. Introduced to. the U.S. in 1931 by a German named Adolf Schickert, the abortion paste ballooned into a $300,000 business, enough to produce some 240,000 abortions (and nobody knows how many deaths) a year, before Food & Drug sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths...
...Etna. In Sicily, Mt. Etna was erupting again. A wide stream of lava creeping down its 10,741-ft. slope had cut a mountain highway, partially filled a reservoir, and frightened the villagers of Cisterna from their homes...
Highlight of the victory was Captain John Rockwell's 39 markers. Loose and poised, he was deadly accurate as he hit the cords from all angles. In the 16 contests so far, he has poured a stream of 338 points through the hoop. This is well over an average of 20 a game, which makes him the all-College high scorer of the season...