Word: stream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tube the cathode shoots a stream of electrons at a hard metal target. The electrons heat up a spot of the metal so that it gives off invisible light rays, the X-rays...
Curtiss-Wright Sales Co. gave a flying party last week for air-curious business leaders of the New York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen -rubbermen, pianomen, bankers, food-men, hatters, bakers, milkmen, silkmen- took them up, showed them over Manhattan, brought them down, five tons landing softly...
Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...
...bulky walls have risen. Throughout the construction of the plant, "Alumnus Aquaticus" and "Anonymous Aquaticus" have carried on steady correspondence with Mr. Bingham, the while maintaining complete anonymity. Letters have been forwarded through the two New York banks in which the runds have been deposited; a steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters signed by these two "anonyml", however, has lead the Director of Athletics to believe that...
Colonel Daniel Hernandez, Guatemalan Minister of Promotion, visited the scene of the eruption at once, approached as close as possible to the lava stream and reported blackened corpses, like raisins on a pudding, carried along on its surface. Came an official bulletin...