Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady stream of wrong numbers continued at a five-a-day clip. It took about a week to discover that the number of the Telephone Shopping Service of Fileno's was ELiot 4-5000, and that Bostonians, in their haste to latch onto a new pair of pants, had been mixing up the phone number of "the world's largest specialty store" with that of four tired freshmen...
...corner of his 286-acre farm, Joe joined a crowd of several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look...
...adage about not changing horses in mid-stream unfortunately gives no hint of what should be done when one's horse drowns. Since the Chinese Nationalists have achieved the political equivalent of drowning, that is the problem this country faces in China...
...last week, nervously cascading a stream of quarters from one hand to the other, he talked a little about himself. "Right now I'm cleaner than 99% of New Yorkers," he said. "Now I don't want you should get the wrong impression-I never sold any Bibles." But he insisted that he obeyed the law. "There they all are wit' their shotguns waiting for me to come out of a hole like a rabbit. You think I could get away with anything? It's ridiculous...
...warming Okinawa's people. On a hill above the southern Okinawa plain lie the ruins of Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open. It has a student and faculty body...