Word: stream
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Airline meteorologists in South America were happy last week. They had found what they had been looking for-a "jet stream" of high-velocity wind in the sub-stratospheric sky. Apparently caused by encounters between air masses of different temperatures, it swooshes along at altitudes above present-day airline routes. A similar jet stream has been discovered in North America weaving crazily over the continent at 25,000 ft. and higher and at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. (TIME, May 29). In the coming years of high-altitude jet transport flying, the streams will become increasingly important...
...southern jet stream, according to the Panair do Brasil meteorologists who discovered it, probably girdles the southern part of the globe. Moving eastward at 36,000 ft., its speed is slightly less than that of the northern stream, and its core is sometimes 180 miles wide. It rides erratically over Rio de Janeiro in winter and Patagonia in summer. Since it borders weather fronts up & down South America, Panair officials are trying to plot its tortured turnings and twistings for more accurate weather forecasting. They also want to know more about it for the day when their jet airliners...
...really is fear of damaging its reputation that motivates Harvard then why have different rules for the College and the Graduate School's? A scandal is going to have its repercussions no matter where it takes place; a stream of women emerging from Lowell House at midnight or one o'clock is no less a potential reputation-breaker than a stream of women emerging at midnight from the graduates center. Yet the parietal rules for the new Graduate Center allow the men to entertain chaperoned women in their rooms up to midnight (1 a.m. over the weekend), while the College...
...that, though the policy of different rules is inconsistent as regards the public reputation of Harvard, it is really consistent as regards what might be called the private reputation. It can be argued that it does make a difference to the parents and friends of the students whether the stream of girls we are talking about comes from Lowell where the average student is about 19 years old, or the Graduate Center where the average student is perhaps four years older...
...summer long, there is a steady stream of friends visiting at the farm. Frost receives them slumped in the ancient Morris chair he bought 40 years ago, talking in his twanging New England voice, a rascally twinkle in his blue eyes. When the Morrisons are there, Frost takes his meals with them at the main house 50 yards down the hill from his cabin...