Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-three months of war have brought forth a stream of books concerned with the problem of reconstructing a shattered Europe. Most of these works have been devoted to the questions of whole continents, and have therefore suffered from sketchiness once the author has passed beyond the bounds of his own special field. That Professor Guerard has confined his contribution to the one nation which he knows most intimately is evidence of a modesty only too rare among America's latter-day Nostradamuses...
...ancient was the enemy: Asamayama ("Mountain Without Bottom"), most fretful and dangerous of Japan's 50 active volcanoes. Seismologists had predicted that an ominously growing crust inside the cone threatened an eruption as violent as that of 1783, when 48 villages were buried deep beneath a scoriaceous lava stream. The word "catastrophe" in Axis news broadcasts indicated that what the seismologists feared may have occurred. But Allied nations were given no word of the damage's extent. This time-unlike the tragic days of the 1923 earthquake-Japan was in no position to appeal to the world...
...stream of refugees boiled and eddied out of Burma last week, the roads to India were littered with stiff bodies, lying on their backs, their hands clutching the air. These were the corpses of cholera victims. In Mandalay (population, 135,000) alone the dread disease attacked 4,000 people...
...will be fitted in during the hot months ahead. Thus a policy which leaves rooms standing empty while students sweat in confined quarters designed for half their numbers, and which forces a few new Freshmen out of the Houses into a Yard which is no longer in the main stream of undergraduate life, has become an outmoded link in the University's war program. Such a ruling should be erased from the statute books...
Although no one knows much about Russia's trans-Ural industrial development, Karpovich feels confident that with the production of these factories, and the steady, though small, stream of supplies from the Allied Nations, the Red troops will be able to resist...