Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bugle. A crowd of 39.000 jamming the Belmont grounds waits expectantly as the nine horses stream around the track to the starting gate. The tote board shows that $376,243 had been wagered on the race, 65% of it on the Dancer to win, place or show...
...Races. On the day of the race, dawn broke with the usual damp wind off Jamaica Bay. But nothing dampened the air of brisk efficiency at the track. The long green barns disgorged a morning-long stream of highbred, high-headed horses. From the barns of the small-time owners and trainers they came in ones and twos. From the wealthier barns they came in "sets," each horse mounted by an exercise boy tricked up in a sweater dyed bright with the owner's colors...
...publishing house for $760,000 between 1945 and 1951, in the correct belief that the World War II baby crop and the G.I. Bill of Rights meant a big boom in textbooks. With another eye on the moppet market, he bought 4% of Lionel Corp. for $630,000. Field & Stream Magazine ($1,300,000) and the James Heddon's fishing-tackle company in Michigan ($2,400,000) were naturals for Murchison, and not merely because of his abiding interest in rod and reel. Among other things, he was figuring on a basic change in the U.S. economy: "Shorter hours...
...Lowell Institute. Last year, one lectured on mathematics to the philosophy club. And, of greater interest to the University, many go on to teach here. Of the first group of Fellows, three: Garrett Birkhoff, Willard Quinc, and B. F. Skinner, have become Professors at Harvard. Since then a steady stream of members has enriched the faculty. Presently, twenty-five--around one quarter of the total number of Fellows--teach here in one capacity or another. Among them are professors Bate, Howard, Homans, Ingalls, Kelleher, Levin, Loomis, McKay Pound and Schlesinger, Jr. Dean Bundy, now an ex-officio member...
More a novel by courtesy than by craft, Gulf Stream North makes what its characters do seem a good deal more real than what they are, makes the special idiom they talk most real of all. Author Conrad regards Gulf Stream North as the completion of an "idiom trilogy" that began with Scottsboro Boy and continued with Rock Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke...