Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well fill our graduate schools of arts and sciences unless we are on guard. But from such a crop few professors will develop who can nourish and inspire the students one and two decades hence. From such a group few original investigators or scholars will arise to enrich the stream of civilization by their discoveries and their thoughts...
...trenches took up the fight, while armor and SS infantry pulled out. In some sectors, the punching, pushing Allies encountered aggressive "counter-reconnaissance screening forces"-in others, only mines in the snow, unguarded roadblocks and the eternal booby traps. Around Bastogne, Rundstedt counterattacked persistently to shield the swelling stream of German tanks and transport flowing east through Houffalize and Saint-Vith...
...story of this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
...Stream v. Dam-Burst. Similarly, said Economist Clark, a postwar version of the War Labor Board will be needed to keep a temporary grip on wages, and WPB will have to keep a light touch on raw materials to: 1) make sure that small business is not squeezed out in the first buying rush; 2) prevent a speculative boom such as helped bring on the postwar collapse...
...upon controls as such evils that they must be done away with in short order. Rather they should see them as tools which, skill fully used, will unstopper the economy so that the forces for full employment, i.e., war-created markets and huge savings, are freed in a steady stream, not one dam-breaking burst...