Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried generally throughout the British Army. A rifle for each soldier to carry, to fire aimed shots from the shoulder without pausing to reload, the Thompson self-loader differs from a machine gun in that the trigger is pulled for each shot instead of held down for a continuous stream of lead. Rid of the necessity for bolting a new cartridge into the firing chamber between shots, as in hand-loading rifles, a soldier can aim 25 or 30 shots per minute with the Thompson self-loader...
...nucleus of the bill was still the Army engineers' plan for bigger and better levees along the main stream of the Mississippi from Cairo, 111., down, and spillways at the foot of the river. The Army figure for this work was $295,000,000. The Senate's elaborations raised the figure to $325,000,000 nominally. The actual cost entailed was estimated as high as $1,500,000,000. It was to pare down and fix the Senate's elaborations that President Coolidge's men fought during the House debates. This fight centred on two points...
...both points the Coolidge men were by and large defeated. As passed, the bill required the U. S. to pay all costs except for levee sites on the main stream. And the U. S. was insured only against damage claims by public utility companies which were left to stand on their constitutional rights and sue in court when the flood control work does them harm. A half-victory by the Coolidge men was the provision that for floodways the U. S. shall buy not actual acreage but "flowage rights" across the land where necessary. This provision cut untold sums from...
...growl and thereupon dropped his own bone. And, although Sir Henri has been growling, (most indecorously for a British or a Dutch businessman), as if he were the dog on the bridge, he has not loosened his teeth from the Oriental markets. Mr. Meyer, like the dog in the stream, has made no sound in the controversy; nor has he loosened his teeth...
...competition for the coxswain's post this spring has been between four men: R. W. Herr '28, J. H. McCollum '28, Pforzheimer and L. L. Wadsworth '30. The balloting on Saturday occurred in Newell Boathouse after the first crew had returned from an hour's work-out down stream, and was narrowed down to Herr and Pforzheimer. Herr was chosen for the Junior University boat...