Word: flash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Borah of Southern California won his heats in both the 100 and 220 and Alder man of Michigan also placed among the furlong leaders. Huesoy, Boston College flash, was prevented from entering the meet by sickness...
From this it may deduced that it is not only from those athletically inclined that prayers for a beaming sun, a dry sod or a smooth river surge forth, but equally from those to whom a flash of sunlight against closed lid means a 9 o'clock achieved, whereas a cloudy sky means rest undisturbed until much later hours...
...Barrow. The territory thus circumscribed, 50,000 square miles lying polewards of Wrangel and Whitney islands had never been viewed by man.? It might contain land. . . . But Captain Wilkins did not return to Barrow as scheduled. After 82 hours his comrades at the base camp caught a radio flash: "Engine trouble." He and Pilot Eielson had been forced down 100 miles from shore, not west, but east of Barrow's longitude. A blizzard raged. The distress signals ceased. The crew on shore waited for weather before flying out in a reserve plane to see how their chief fared among...
...indomitable desire for culture still persist, the Vagabond can hasten back from Soldiers Field when the sun begins to glow comfortably in the late afternoon. If he has time, let him stop a minute on the Anderson Bridge to watch the oars dip and flash as an eight pulls up the Charles. He cannot linger long, however, for Mr. Forbes Watson, editor of "The Arts", will speak at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum on "Civilized Contemporary Painting from Cozanne to Picasso...
There he stands, arms folded. Suddenly the Deputies remember that he stands, after all, for Poland. His lion courage, his dramatic posturing, even his dynamic fickleness, are their own. In a flash the Deputies have changed their minds about the Budget Bill. A few moments, and it is voted through in its original form amid a dazed, hypnotic silence...