Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 2-The cover of This Week showing a bird in the middle of presumably a mountain stream, with a fly rod well-bent and reeling in his fish. Ask any fly fisherman if he ever tried to reel in a fish...
...first half of the 19th Century, Latin School set a steady stream of New Englanders on the road to fame. Among them: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles William Eliot, Senator Charles Graham Sumner, orators like Wendell Phillips and Edward Everett, divines like Edward Everett Hale, Henry Ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks...
...ladies in hoop skirts playing croquet on a shaded lawn. One of the most prolific of artists, Homer sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators in the U. S., he was paid...
...oxygen tanks were brought in, the stream of visitors continued. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson called. So did Mr. Justice Sutherland. President Roosevelt kept in touch by telephone. Chief Justice Hughes called, and Mr. Justice Brandeis. Finally when his life could be sustained only by constant oxygen, admittance was denied to every visitor but one. This week, as Mr. Justice Holmes's 94th year was drawing to an end, physicians announced that that Last Visitor was at his door...
...then about-faced and once more set out for mid-stream. Once more the ice broke. This time, several hitherto unnoticed men appeared with a ladder and skidded it out to him. A second rescue was under way, while the gentlemen of the ladder jotted down, sentences in a notebook regarding its progress. This procedure, it was discovered, was one of a series of experiments put on by the Red Cross to gather data for a treatise...