Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raising main-stream levees two feet and widening them from eight feet thick to twelve-$7,700,000 (total authorization...
...stroke was held to 28 to the minute throughout the four miles. It is hard for me to conceive of a racing shell moving faster than theirs, yet Ed Foote's 1905 crew rowed one time trial at Poughkeepsie in 18 minutes 33 seconds and another one up stream in the phenomenal time of 18 minutes 24½ seconds...
Candidate Hoover, the Administration's busy but not supremely happy Beaver Man, waded into a trout-stream in Pennsylvania and for three days indulged pensively in the Sport of Presidents. He used the subtle, sporting fly, however, instead of the homely, almost infallible worm...
Instead of being a mere attempt to cover a vast and familiar ground more rapidly than is predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book...
WELCOME HOME-Alice Duer Miller-Dodd Mead ($2). To compete with the fictional vogue for neuroses, stream-of-thought, documentary realism, Alice Duer Miller has done two novelettes, each with an actual plot: introduction, climax, denouement, elements as gratifying as they are oldfashioned...