Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Typhoid. Fortnight ago, workmen accidentally let the dirty Genesee River water flow into Rochester's water mains (TIME, Dec. 23). Since the typhoid bacillus may take as long as 42 days to incubate, Rochesterians last week still had days of suspense ahead of them. Many were cheered when a former superintendent of waterworks made the startling confession that the same mistake had been made several times before, "without too much publicity...
...gentlemen, you see what I meant," said horse-proud Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., commander of the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss. What he meant was that horses could "flow"' over terrain where no truck, scout car or tank could go. He spent an evening last month expounding his doctrine of flowing horses and horsemen to visiting newspapermen, then put on his show next day. He had indeed demonstrated that modern cavalry could flow off roads, through brush and sand, over ridges and through gullies which would slow or balk any mechanized force. And horsed units, within...
Whatever the size of the flow cavalry might be allowed in the new Army, life at Fort Bliss (and at many another post) had changed. The lazy days were over. The Army was at work...
Like most identical twins, Freda & Ida talk as one person, in a continuous flow of words. Sample: "(Ida) People have always tried to separate us, but we prefer to be together. (Freda) We seem to be sympathetic types; there is something we get from one another. (Ida) Besides it really increases our production, people think we are bears for work because we do two pictures while someone else does one. (Freda) We are really very prolific...
...Find Out (R. K. O. Radio). Bandmaster Kay Kyser, who sells Lucky Strike cigarets on a weekly radio hour called Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, wows his audience with a white cap & gown, a bouncing, frenzied jig he performs in front of the orchestra, an irresistible flow of puns, sly glances at his audience to let them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery...