Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigander of Scottish-German ancestry, Norman Bel Geddes has been, among other things, actor, producer, director, stage designer and author. The big brownstone house on Manhattan's East 37th Street in which Barbara spent her early childhood saw an endless stream of visitors from many worlds. It was Norman's studio as well as his home, and on the upper floors busy draftsmen and artisans were always hard at work, assembling stage models, cutting out rubber animals for a Macy parade, drawing up plans for a restaurant, or laying out production schedules for some new show...
Coxswain Carver's gang tried hard. But they didn't go very far. The favored Cambridge crew skimmed off to a six-length lead in the first half-mile of the horseshoe-shaped 4¼-mile course. The heavier Oxford shell, fighting the choppy, flooded stream, began shipping water from the start, soon swamped and gurgled to a stop...
...little man from Toledo breasts the big winds blandly, a smile on his face and an endless stream of wisecracks, wise sayings and smart answers on his lips. He arrived in Washington with a typical quip...
...little town of New London, Mo., 48 years ago, a man and his wife were injured in a buggy accident by the side of a stream. The man survived, but the woman was found dead, face down in the water. When a local doctor, after a cursory examination, suggested that the woman had been dosed with morphine, her husband was indicted for murder...
...that sulphur has been so easy to get in the past that nobody really bothered hustling for it. As late as World War I, the U.S. had to import more than one-third of its supply. But since the early '30s, the U.S. has provided an increasing stream of pure sulphur, or "brimstone," from the rich salt domes of the Gulf coast...