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Word: streamingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Towards the end came the Hoover speech about Main Street, with special reference to that famed thoroughfare's co-operation during the Mississippi flood. Said the Nominee: "I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life, the stature and character of our people. More particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national charracter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speech No. 4 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...juices. When quinine gets into the blood it causes beneficent sweating. It is a bactericide also, slightly stronger than the same strength of carbolic acid, yet not exceptionally powerful. Bacteria are low-grade vegetable organisms. The thing which causes malaria is animal?plasmodium malariae?introduced into the human blood stream by a breed of mosquito. Quinine in the blood kills the plasmodium in the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dutch Monopoly | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...murder of Daniel O'Leary, one of four ganging brothers, seemed to be a retaliatory measure from Duffy headquarters. But the hearing of testimony germane to the murders gave way before the information of a stream of truck drivers, brewery bosses, alcohol dealers and other nondescript employees of what began to loom with increasing clarity as a monster liquor ring in the Philadelphia underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Tammany Democrats who are so fond of referring to Mr. Smith as another Lincoln should remember that Lincoln said, 'Never swap horses while crossing the stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hearst on Treason | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...President shot a shotgun at sailing clay pigeons and had the satisfaction of seeing 24 out of 25 break in mid-air-a surprising score for one new to trapshooting.* At Lewis, occurred a feat even more surprising. As their fishing boat slipped around a bend in the stream, President Coolidge, Broker Lewis and Secret Service Man Walter Ferguson beheld a tall brown crane standing on one leg in the water, 20 yards away. Cranes eat trout. Broker Lewis pays a bounty of $2 for each crane killed on his acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Further Exploits | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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