Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...islands block the stream...
Himalayan Headaches. The personal and technical difficulties which had to be surmounted to accomplish this job and keep it going were Himalayan. For Wedemeyer it meant a twelve-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job. Paper work and conferences were endless. The stream of visitors at the General's Chungking headquarters includes diplomats and production experts as well as military personnel. But from 4 to 5 each afternoon is reserved for the Generalissimo-and often Wedemeyer uses the hour to call on Chiang...
...Supplies flowed to the front in a regular stream. Troops were not anchored down by the need to hoard fixed quantities of food and ammunition...
Harvard's crew wore handlebar mustaches (false) and foolish grins. Radcliffe's crew, in white shirts and red ribbons, looked deadly serious. The race was to be a half-mile on the Charles River, down stream...
...bombs, shells and rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...