Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through Copenhagen's ornate Town Hall trooped a steady stream of sightseers last week to look at the workings of the world's most complex astronomical clock. Set in motion shortly before Christmas by Denmark's King Frederik IX, the clock is expected to run steadily for more than 1,000 years, deviating in its measurement of sidereal time by only two-fifths of a second every 300 years. If properly cared for, it will accurately calculate the position of the stars in the universe for the next 25,700 years...
...Royce Conway and Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire jet engines. But what about the license agreements in the U.S. for eight other British power plants ? . . . Your article does not mention the hundreds of smaller feeder aircraft. It is silent on the many military aircraft that have been supplied in a steady stream to our own R.A.F. and foreign air forces throughout the world...
...page 50th anniversary number, and tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, St. Louis Blues, Over There and God Bless America...
Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...
...print of an oil painting that the President started the week before his late heart attack and finished painting in the hospital at Denver. The print showed a snowscape of St. Louis Creek, in the Rockies, where the President often liked to fish. "He knows every rock in the stream," said one of the recipients...