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Word: stream (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves "to play on the stage"-and has found that she can at the Met-she made Susanna a maid any Figaro would fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Visitor from Vienna | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...late-comers poured into Symphony Hall. The isles were clogged with old women greeting their friends, school-girls scampering around in search of their seats, and an occasional man shambling to and fro. Ansermet waited patiently for a minute or so, then wheeled around and glared disgustedly at the stream of people still flowing in. People, noticing his expression, started pointing at him and laughing, while members of the orchestra resumed their warm-up cacaphony. The stream turned into a dribble and finally stopped, allowing the concert to continue...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...explosive under the corner of Harry Moore's bedroom. No one saw or heard him. FBI men, who checked painstakingly later, could tell by his tracks only that he was a long-striding man with small feet, who apparently got away by automobile and drove off in the stream of traffic flowing along U.S. Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: The Uninvited Guest | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...rubber shoepacks are working effectively. Special weather stations have been set up to chart temperature, humidity and wind velocity every hour, day & night. The information is checked against the flow of field casualties to determine the exact conditions under which frostbite occurs. Everywhere, team members ask a steady stream of questions: Did your feet perspire? Were you asleep? How were you dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At War with Frostbite | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Collecting and keeping such an endless stream of racing information is an intricate business. Crews of Perlman's men- dockers, chart-callers, call-takers, reporters-cover every major North American race. To transmit the information, the Telegraph has its own teletype circuits. It also keeps in type, ready to print, the up-to-date records of more than 30,000 horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Vet's List | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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