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Word: streamingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abanah river's edge through seven sweet miles of rustling boughs and superb shade, the city spreads her whole length as a man falls flat, face forward, in the brook that he may drink and drink again; so Damascus, thirsty forever, lies down with her lips to the stream and clings to its rustling waters." Tradition ascribes to Damascus the title "oldest city in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dauntless Tourists | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...highest form of consciousness, since it is but a nebula surrounded by dim intuitions, awareness. He predicted rare discoveries in the subconscious. He has substituted for Darwin's "natural" selection a "creative" selection by which, he thinks, man will ultimately surpass his own nature. The stream of life (elan vital), having entered blind alleys in the vegetable kingdom and insect world, has achieved man in the vertebrate phylum, and will not be stopped there. Benedetto Croce (1866-), idol of Italy-although, lately, victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Dear Delight | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...play in which a man pawed a young woman with animal intent. (Down Stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Arraigment | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Nicolo, Maffeo, Marco | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...three to women. And so the public heard how Mrs. Josephine L. August, night operator at Cassopolis, Mich., frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank; how Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer Everett C. Nelson did on top of a 45-foot pole near Niagara Falls. But most extraordinary of all was a curt report concerning a certain Mrs. Mary Regina Smith of Fabens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Vail Medals | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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