Word: stream
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Other important results have been the development of new instrumentation techniques. Probably the most unique among these is the hot wire aenomometer, a device which measures the velocity of an air stream by measuring the cooling effect of the stream on a hot wire. With this instrument, the phenomenon called rotating stall, where the air flow across a rotor blade is destroyed, was first discovered here...
...whether they realize it or not. The psychological warrior supreme is the highway cop who ostentatiously parks his big white car marked POLICE on the brow of a hill, for all drivers to see and worry about. He is no bluff. And he has a tremendous effect on the stream of traffic, and seldom has to get out in hot pursuit...
Aggressive & Unchanged. Many of Ketcham's ideas for the cartoon no longer come from his son, who has begun to outgrow the caricature. Instead, Ketcham depends on his friend Bob Harmon, 34, a victim of muscular dystrophy, who keeps a steady stream of Dennis cartoon suggestions and captions flowing from his West Coast home, gets a large share of Dennis income. Dennis the Menace will never grow older, never acquire any brothers or sisters, or change in any way. Says Cartoonist Ketcham: "He'll be 4½ and unchanged all his aggressive little life...
Alarmed by the swelling stream of refugees into West Germany from Communist East Germany-more than 25,000 in January and now more than 1,000 a day -Chancellor Konrad Adenauer broadcast a striking appeal to East Germans in Red bondage. He urged them not to take flight unless their own lives are in danger...
...Reds proposed 2,300 separate amendments and wanted to debate them all. Night after night they sent a steady stream of speakers forward to keep parliament in session until dawn; when larynxes failed, they used fists, chair legs and football rushes. Once, as a vote approached on an important maneuver, Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti deployed a cordon of Communist deputies around the ballot box to keep others from voting. One by one, pro-government deputies managed to break through to drop small wooden balls (white for yes, black for no) into the box. Infuriated, the Reds tossed all the voting...