Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Internationally, the stream of professors comes and goes from 55 Shattuck Street to all corners Professor Stare of the Department of Nutrition has just left for Indonesia, while Dr. Gordon is now in India with the World Health Organization. The most immediate recognition of such international work came from the Belgian government. It presented the school with $20,000 toward the school's newest professorship estab-6Laboratory research makes up a third of the training of a public health student. Here a group are experimenting and checking facts they learned in a discussion group earlier in the day. The third...
...other hand, it does seem sort of strange," he mused. "After all, precipitation since January is already 13 inches above normal, and snow this late in April is unseasonal." Then he muttered something about stratopheric winds and the Gulf Stream, peeked into the Old Farmer's Almanac, and announced: "It will all be over by noon...
Everyone who knew Fred Eugene McManus thought he was just about the nicest boy in the suburban village of Valley Stream, N.Y. He was a handsome lad, tall, well built, with a quick, pleasant smile. He came from a good home-the McManus family lives in a big, white, well-kept house, and the boy's father, Mose McManus, a well-paid brewery executive, saw to it that his son had a pleasant life. But unlike many a good-looking boy with doting parents, Fred seemed completely unspoiled. He was quiet, notably polite, and rather shy with girls...
When the news got back to Valley Stream, the elder McManus cried desperately that it was untrue. He could not remember ever hearing of a Diane Weggeland. "I can't believe it," he said. "This boy is not my son. My boy wouldn't do such a thing." He flew to Dubuque, where Fred was in jail, listened in astounded horror to the chilling tale the boy -speaking as politely as ever-had told the police...
...Nash admits that his steady stream of conversation during an experiment sometimes interferes with his concentration on details. Chemistry 2 alumni still talk of the day that he forgot to put a sheet of asbestos under a plate of white phosphorus. When the phosphorus ignited, Nash had to dash from the room with the flaming mass before it spread over Malinckrodt. Chemist Nash grumbles that "if things possibly can go wrong, they do go wrong precisely when they can do the most harm...