Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when a man is breathing hard and under great physical exertion, the amount of vapor he could inhale wouldn't get him drunk. As much as 62 percent of the alcohol inhaled is absorbed into the blood stream. The remaining 38 percent is lost through exhalation...
...Stream of History...
...German collector in the 1890s. Some of the specimens arrived alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...
...love story, which begs for trilling piano accompaniment, seems too naive for Valentino to have enacted even on the screen of the '20s. Its Technicolored Valentino (Anthony Dexter), trysting with the actress wife (Eleanor Parker) of his director (Richard Carlson), pours out his mockpassionate speeches in a thin stream of Midwestern nasality...
...urbanely skeptical Santayana holds that it is the only one of his books which has been "inspired." But anyone who has waded knee-deep in the old philosopher's stream of consciousness may feel there is more recapitulation in the new work than revelation...