Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 53 (last spring), Dr. Empringham rented a $5,000-per-year apartment in Manhattan. Said his janitor last week: "There was a constant stream of women and girls running into the building after him. Lots of them were beauties, too. But he was never there. It got to be a real nuisance, I can tell you." Upon further Health Department warning, he closed his Emanuel Institute...
...with her whistle tied down and the pilot squirting a steady stream of tobacco juice on the floor of the "Texas" (pilot house), the cotton packet Robert E. Lee chuffed up the 1,154 mi!es of tortuous Mississippi river from New Orleans to St. Louis in 90 hr. 14 min. Behind her, beaten, labored the packet Natchez, burning up "doors, furniture, hundreds of hams and slabs of side meat." The Robert E. Lee's record stood until last week when three exhausted, red-eyed men tottered ashore at St. Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie...
...steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight up about a quarter-mile. There the fuel seemed to ignite all at once, instead of in a stream, as planned. The roar sent Worcester ambulances and police hunting for tragedy. They found Professor Goddard and assistants inquisitively studying his rocket shell, which had landed near the side of its propulsion...
...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
...Findhorn: Small stream in Elginshire on a bank of which stands Logic House, scene of the statesmen's meeting...