Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history. In 1890, James Colby Colgate gave one million dollars to a school called Madison University in Hamilton, New York. Out of gratitude, the school's director junked the name Madison and replaced it with the donor's name. In following years, a procession of Colgates poured a steady stream of money into the growing University, until new, not only the college but its library, swimming pool, Freshman Union, and administrative offices bear the name of assorted members of the toothpaste family...
Many of his passages resembel those of Dostoevsky and Thomas Wolfe at their stream-of-consciousness best. But in a sense he transcends both; for while they mask themselves as characters in novels, Koestler admits that he is laying bare his soul before his readers. He also has the advantage (questionable to be sure) of a familiarity with Freudian psychoanalysis. One wonders whether the author has not gone a bit overboard when he uses this method to explain his youth in Budapest. It is difficult to believe that a man can become so detached from himself as to reveal...
...Mariano Brull, Cuban Minister to Belgium: ". . . The poet is in a wanting without wanting, which, like a disordered stream, runs towards that which attracts it with an illuminated trembling...
...physiologically on the verge of manhood, was in fact-and law-a man. "I have been a man biologically and socially for several months, leading a bach elor's life and discarding the last remnants of the tedious upbringing as a girl," he said. By an upland salmon stream, the heir to the family baronetcy (but not the barony), Rear Admiral Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill, 74, considered his new status. "As uncle of the present peer. I succeed," he told a reporter. "According to Scottish law, a girl can't. But Ewan . . . dammit, that...
...group of Navy electronics men was tramping through a forest on the coast of Washington. "Suddenly," reported one of them, "the woods opened up as if we had come to Shangri-La." On either side of a fine little stream-Jim Creek-stood a 4,000-ft. mountain. It was just what the Navy was looking for. Last week, more than eight years later, the bears and cougars had been driven away from Jim Creek and much of the forest was gone too. In its place stands the world's most powerful radio transmitter...