Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sleeked with sandpaper and rubbed down until not so much as a varnish blister marred its swift stream lines, a U. S. seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the timing instruments. Officials figured for a moment-announced that Lieut. Jame Doolittle had covered the course at an average speed of 232,573 miles per hour, which was 43,753 miles an hour faster than the previous (unofficial) world record for seaplanes set at Bayshore a year...
...current tendency in the criticism of contemporary and historical characters is to give them credit for their good traits as well as to censure them for their evil ones. Rowing hard against this modern critical stream, however, comes "The Senate and the League of Nations," written by the late Henry Cabot Lodge. Instead of discussing the Senate and the League of Nations from various angles and then building up proof to support the conclusions of the author, as one might expect in this enlightened age, the book devotes very little space to specific issues, and abounds in vituperative generalities directed...
...ancient landing of Lief Ericsen on the Atlantic coast, is considered by no means impossible, it has been pointed out. Other possible evidence of the presence of Asiatics on the western coast is the story of a complete Chinese junk, found buried in the gravel of a stream by early Californian settlers...
Standing at the banks of the Rhine for tht first time since the World War, President von Hindenburg "beheld with emotion this stream of our destiny" and cried: "It was ours as long as we were united; we lost it when discord divided us ... The Rhine must forever be an admonition to Germans to remain united...
...Straightway a steady stream of Cabinet members began to flow into the White House to pay official calls. Next day the first Cabinet meeting in eleven weeks was held (see CABINET...