Word: flash
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday came the announcement like a flash from a clear sky that the three Deans are no longer to be ex officiis members of the Athletic Committee, but that "three members of the faculty of arts and Sciences" are to be "appointed by the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers." This virtually means that the recommendation of the Joint committee on the regulation of Athletic Sports, after less than a year's trial; is to be partially, if not absolutely ignored. The "standing rules and orders of the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers, concerning the regulation...
...candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that...
Owing to the small number of tickets that have been sold, members of the class may obtain them until 12 o'clock at Leavitt & Peirce's and at the Union. Arrangements have been made to have a flash-light picture of the dinner taken, copies of which may be obtained through the Dinner Committee...
...regard to what was once called the Correlation of Forces, and which is now termed Transformation of Energy. I never left him without a mental stimulus which led me either to differ or reflect. His mind was like an electrical discharge in a tube of rarified gas, a flash light, enormously suggestive. He was seen at his best in some meeting of earnest men, unlearned, but men of affairs, capable of grasping fundamental ideas. There he was the scientific protagonist bringing the truths and sublimity of science down to the comprehension of humanity; and a journey in his company from...
...anxiously awaited at Argos. The play opens with a nocturnal view of the palace at Mycenae, from the roof of which a watchman details in picturesque prologue, the long weariness of his watch for the beacon light, that should announce the fall of Troy. At length, seeing the beacon flash out, he shouts the good news to the people in the palace, but not without a dark word of foreboding for the future. Twelve old men of Mycenae, who form the chorus, now file through a side passage into the orchestra, chanting as they march...