Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...song becomes a duet when a man, employed by her husband to provide divorce grounds, enters the room. The duet becomes a trio when another feminine guest of the hotel comes in to demand the use of the bath. Finally the noise grows so loud that all the employes stream in. The finale is exciting, uproarious...
...mouth, hurled itself against the satiny blackness of the sky. Huge volcanic missiles hissed through the air, making red wounds upon the face of the night. Scorching cinders curved outward in shimmering clouds and lava rushed over the volcano's jagged edges and started downward in an implacable, destroying stream. Vesuvius, terrible father of volcanoes, had unloosed his recurring wrath once more...
...also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought" in the suggestion that utility propaganda bureaus be discontinued, added, however, that it was vitally important that the "youth of the land" should be allowed to "drink from the running stream of current facts [concerning power and public utilities] rather than from the stagnant pool of wornout ideas, pools poisoned ... by the sophistries of discredited theorists...
...main stream of poetry in any period always has countless little counter-currents and side eddies that are interesting if only to point the contrast with the dominant tendency. "Thalia" is very much one of these off-shoots, and this in spite of the publishers' claim that it is "fresh and modern in its point of view...
...speed prevents a destructive jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer invented the catapult...