Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these criticisms, their adoption in the middle of a fiscal year would hardly be justified. As Lincoln once said in connection with a change in policy during the Civil War, there is little to be gained and much to be lost by "swapping horses in the middle of a stream...
...essential. As in the case of Lincoln's Civil War policy, the emergency relief program for 1939 will be gravely imperiled by any interference within the fiscal year. If it so desires, Congress will have ample time to "swap horses" when it gets to the other side of the stream...
...Rotch Building, headquarters of Harvard's metallurgy studies, may be seen the new election bombardment furnace, new metallographs for studying the crystal structure of metals, and the new materials-testing laboratory. In the new furnace, which utilizes the stream of electrons to make intense heats, such metals as irridium, platinum, and platinum have been melted with heats ranging up to 4500 degrees Fahrenheit...
Harvard's basketball team has a chance--just a bare one--of interrupting the steady stream of E.I.L. defeats which have been pinned on them during this winter's campaign as they journey to New York to face a Columbia Lion which still has a mathematical possibility of tying the Dartmouth Indians for the League crown...
...Only sure, scientific method of determining whether an organ is cancerous is microscopic analysis. With a sharp, hollow steel needle a pathologist draws from a suspected growth a bit of living tissue, which is immediately frozen by a stream of carbon dioxide from a high-pressure tank. Then it is cut into thin sections and mounted on a microscope slide. The whole procedure takes only a few minutes, is usually performed while a patient lies on the operating table. If microscopic examination shows that the cells are malignant, a surgeon can start to operate at once...