Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Bangs, who found himself incarcerated with the rebellious Freshmen behind the locked gates, made three courageous sallies in the face of the outraged prisoners to quell the disorders. His fourth sortie was greeted by a well-directed stream from a fire extinguisher which had been brought into action...
...causes of evolution have been discredited, but the evidences of evolution itself, the gradual elaboration of all living forms from simple unicellular life, have multiplied year by year. Evidences of Human Evolution. There are, according to Pofessor Lull, three kinds of evidence that man belongs in the great stream of evolution which produced all other kinds of animals: 1) Morphology (anatomy). Man is composed of protoplasm like all other plants and animals. He breathes as all higher animals do and eats much as they do. He is a vertebrate with the same number of limbs as other vertebrates. Bone...
...with the details of a particular science but will inquire about the methods of all sciences. If he is interested in history, literature, and the general evolution of ideas, he will want to take up the thought of past ages the great philosophical systems which have contributed to the stream of civilization. And if he is interested in religious problems, the nature of God, immortality, freedom, the origins of life and consciousness, he will turn to metaphysics...
...July 27, 1632, a considerable part of Monte Pozzolo shot with considerable and sudden velocity to the peaceful valley below, carrying with it Antronapiana, Swiss hamlet. The slide also dammed the valley stream and soon there arose the lake of Antrona. Last week, the waters of the lake subsided, uncovered some of the remains of the old village (there is a new one) of Antronapiana...
Morning, noon, night, midnight? the stream of cranks in and out of newspaper offices is in perpetual motion. Occasionally, one of them succeeds in having a young cub sent out to hear his tale...