Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Valley Stream...
...that there is now a highway leading to Rome," he wrote. "But on most of our modern roads there is dual traffic. This is also true of the spiritual highway; on one track there are many making the journey to Rome, but on the other there is a continuous stream of those who are leaving Rome and looking elsewhere for their spiritual home...
...laboratory, Max Planck, a 42-year-old German physicist, was trying to describe mathematically the emission of light by glowing bodies. No one had done it and Planck could not do it either-until, in a sort of desperation, he assumed that light does not flow in a smooth stream, as everyone supposed, but in tiny, indivisible bursts...
...instruments of torture, and then . . . bound to horses and sleighs, dragged to the river . . . and thrown into the water. Women and children . . . were tied together and likewise thrown [in] . . . The streltsy (sharpshooters) followed the victims, borne by the current along the shore and down the middle of the stream, and any who came to the surface were forcibly drowned . . . 'And so . . . for five weeks, or even more, [says an old chronicle] a thousand persons a day were cast into the water; but we were thankful for every day on which no more than five or six hundred persons were...