Word: flash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eppes hails from St. Louis and that Western town has never produced a more fascinating girl than this pleasure loving, scintillating and talented young daughter of Senator and Mrs. Harry Hawes. She's like a flash of concentrated lightning. Her social triumphs include New York, Newport, Washington, D. C., where she is a reigning belle in diplomatic circles and St. Louis, the city of her birth. Not only is she more than passing pleasing to the eye, but she dives like an otter, dances like a nymph and has a dramatic talent that would land her on Broadway were...
Coach Horween's first and second-string backfields proved equally effective, showing infinite possibilities. Speed, shiftiness, and drive, coupled with ability to flash an accurate aerial attack, augur well for the season. The interference carried out its assignments well for the most part, taking out Springfield's secondary defense on the end runs and clearing the holes made by the line on the plays through the opposing forward wall. Four forward passes were attempted, two of which succeeded. S. L. Batchelder '31 was on the passing end of both of these, with T. W. Gilligan '31 receiving. This combination looks...
Speed! The wires spat that, near Milan, on the Grand Prix Course, famed Racing Driver Antonio Materassi is roaring to victory at 120 miles per hour. Death! The car swerves and plunges into the grandstand. Materassi is killed. So are 21 spectators. Cables flash to the U. S. that among the 26 injured was one Mrs. Dorothy Doherty, Bostonian...
...gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst. "Forged!" he leers again, as the sergeant unearths a wallet stuffed with bills. A low moan from the upper...
Alfred Lee Loomis, banker (Bonbright & Co.), electro-physicist (effects of high frequency sound waves) had as guest at his splendid private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...