Word: flowingly
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...prime worry. Too little water means famine; too much, catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took three years to build, had to be thrice heightened, cost...
...great danger. For that reason Memphis expected a flood 5 to 10 ft. above all previous records. For that reason 50,000 refugees from the lowlands were streaming into Memphis. Down at New Orleans the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened two days before the water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless the onrush should weaken the levee on the Missouri side...
...Captain Ernest Clegg, a British company commander on the Western Front, went to London on leave. While there, he was invited to visit his old friend Captain Kiddle of the dreadnought Revenge, which was anchored with the rest of the British Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow. Mrs. Clegg thought it would be a nice change for her husband, packed him off to Scotland. An hour after Captain Kiddle welcomed his guest on his quarterdeck, the Grand Fleet steamed out on emergency orders and the Battle of Jutland, greatest modern naval engagement...
...earn. He earned it by drawing decorative maps for magazines and decorators. Last week, however, at Rockefeller Center's British Empire Building in Manhattan he exhibited the newly completed job in which his heart had been for 20 years: the Battle of Jutland and the surrender at Scapa Flow on canvas...
...Suits passed a brilliant arc between two electrodes of a welding torch in an atmosphere of hydrogen. This was magnified and projected in color on a frosted glass screen. The engineers saw the images of the electrodes three inches apart, with the broad, vivid flow of the arc two inches wide. Then Dr. Suits produced an arc in an atmosphere of nitrogen. The arc band was pale, thin. But when he stepped up the nitrogen pressure to 1,200 Ib. per sq. in., the arc thickened and brightened until it was indistinguishable from that produced in hydrogen...