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Word: streaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Lubrication Expert | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...intakes in its sides just ahead of the rear fenders. The engine, placed behind the driver's seat, has two exhaust vents. The car, which looks much like an ordinary car on the outside, is not jet-propelled. Its fuel burns in two combustion chambers, producing a gas stream that spins a high-speed turbine. The gas escapes upward at rather low speed while the turbine turns the car's rear wheels through reduction gears and a conventional rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Turbo-Whizzard | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...present site of the CRIMSON was a stream that ran past the Town Wharf into the Charles River. Dunster House has replaced the wherry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Water Shortage Here . . . College Buildings Float on It | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

...This streams was forced underground when the Zoological Museum and Jarvis Field were built. A blueprint of the proposed museum dated 1868, with the stream on it can be checked against a plan of the area after construction (1885) in which the creek is missing. The water evidently sank down as far as the water shelf when the stream was filled in. The Biology department uses this water for its air conditioning system today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Water Shortage Here . . . College Buildings Float on It | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

...stream of witnesses took the stand to testify, some with trembling voices, to the selflessness of Hermann Sander-who had made up his mind to become a physician after reading Lloyd C. Douglas' Magnificent Obsession, who refused to send bills to people who could not afford to pay them, who sometimes slept, exhausted, on the floor of his office, who in the last few months before Mrs. Borroto's death had become overwrought, mentally and physically fatigued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Obsessed | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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