Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Briefly stated, it is the tale of Jamie McRuin, a strapping young Irishman who is saved from certain death by the legendary Fairy Queen. After plucking him out of a raging stream, she offers him three wishes. He chooses to travel, to marry a beautiful woman, and to have a son who will speak the old (Gaelic) language. In the course of two acts, nineteen scenes, the wishes are fulfilled...
...such complicated devices as radars and computers, which use hundreds or even thousands of vacuum tubes, supplying the power is a serious problem. The heat developed by the tubes is even worse. To keep the temperature down, they must be well spaced and cooled by an air stream. Transistors cause no such problems; they can be "potted" in plastic and whole arrays put close together...
They injected phosphorous into the blood stream and applied it to the tooth surfaces of monkeys...
...this week, every NBC-TV producer will be asked to turn in a monthly report listing what he has done to contribute to the "enlightenment" of the TV audience. If he has done nothing, he must say why. Taylor, believing that enlightenment can become a part of the regular stream of commercial programs, says: "We're beginning to get the right atmosphere. The boys are trying to think of things...
...Children's Hospital in Boston last week, and the first patients trooped in for examinations and checkups. All were boys & girls for whom, until about five years ago, medical science could offer little or no comfort. They were victims of generalized cancers such as leukemia (in the blood stream) or the spreading type of Hodgkin's disease (in the lymph nodes). Now there is at least good reason for hoping that their lives can be made both brighter and longer...