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Word: streaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three friends struggling to push a Pontiac convertible out of a snowbound parking space. "Sure," he said and braced himself against the rear fender. With a mighty heave they pushed the car free. It sped off down the street, though not before it had sprayed a thick stream of wet snow over Vag's only clean pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/1/1952 | See Source »

...million gallons of fresh water into the salted gravel under Manhattan Beach. Observation wells drilled alongside showed that the fresh water did not mix much with the salt, but forced it away, forming a mound of freshwater gravel. The sea water still seeped inland around the mound, like a stream flowing around a rock, but at that one point it was stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underground Dam | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...small profit first in Welsh mining towns, then in a shabby London street. But almost overnight, his luck turned. He was called in, purely for emergency reasons, to attend a wealthy patient, and in her wake came an avalanche of Mayfair clients who filled his purse with a "golden stream." Unlike his Scottish and Welsh patients, many of these newcomers were merely "idle, spoiled and neurotic," but young Dr. Cronin was too thrilled by success to care much about that "("I was, I assure you, a great rogue at this period"). For these new patients he invented an ailment named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proud Soul v. Humble Soul | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...water fed into the apparatus, which has no moving parts and which uses no heat or chemicals, is split into two streams, a fresh water stream containing almost no traces of the salts, and a brine stream half the volume of the fresh one. The brine stream may then be treated to yield magnesium, bromine, salt, and other chemicals found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Plan for Desalting Sea May Make Arid Soil Fertile | 2/23/1952 | See Source »

...stream of enemy fire caught Davis' Sabre jet; it flipped out of control and crashed to the ground behind the Communist lines before Davis could parachute out. The Air Force listed him as missing in action, but his flying mates felt sure that 31-year-old Ace Davis, of Lubbock, Texas, was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fallen Ace | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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