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Word: streaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief asset of the machine is the speed with which it works, enabling police to tell within seven minutes whether a person has too much alcohol in his blood stream to operate a car safely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamb Develops 'Alcometer' for Testing Ability, Capacity to Drive | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

...district court in Washington to compel Mow to account for the millions put into his hands, and to return any money still left (the Nationalists thought there ought to be $7,000,000). Mow retained as his attorney Colonel William A. Roberts, a Washington lawyer who fed a steady stream of "news" to reporters; the newsmen apparently hardly paused to ask whether Mow and Hsiang were really the victims and opponents of corruption they claimed to be. Over Roberts' objections the district court insisted that it had jurisdiction, ordered plaintiff and defendant to appear to tell what he knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Who's Corrupt? | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches and Finn for gaffing salmon in a shallow stream on the family estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shout in the Blood | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Mass. On those occasions when he noticed his own whims, he liked to embellish them with wit. A man who saw him chasing his hat through a stream of traffic joined in, caught the hat and returned it to G.K.-who promptly assured him that it should never have been rescued at all. "Then why on earth did you run after it?" "It's an old friend," G.K. explained. "I am fond of it, and I wanted to be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postscript on G. K. | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Duke decided to take Chata and himself on his first vacation in more than ten years. A trip through Central America in a reconditioned Navy PBY provided by Howard Hughes, the vacation turned out to be just a road-company version of life in Hollywood. A never-ending stream of autograph hunters and command appearances faced the famed movie star at every stop. The air waves hummed with unfinished business. John Ford, impatient to get going on Duke's new film in Ireland, peppered the wanderers with importunate messages. Tempers were constantly frayed, and the idyll ended with Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wages of Virtue | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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