Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simply "Nuts." He was a brilliant man who could read a page at a glance and had a passion for German novels. He was also a man in a hurry, and his letters -"Dear Flash: I do. Sincerely yours ...; Dear Reuben: i. No. Ever yours . . .; Dear The Central Administration: By God I am. Sincerely yours . . ."-added to the legend. "Stop bothering me," he would scribble across a memo. More often his comment would be a simple "nuts...
Leonard C. Wirtanen 1G, who was in the lab at the time of the accident, reported he saw a flash while Harbury was working over his laboratory equipment. Harbury said "I'm all right. I'm all right," according to Wirtanen. Then he collapsed...
Krieg's research indicates that even when the transmission stations are permanently damaged, the brain is still capable of receiving and translating electrical impulses artificially applied. Thus, Krieg says, if a certain point at the back of the brain is stimulated, the patient will "see" a flash of light in a precise part of his visual field...
That was the last link that held the Constellation and 48 lives to earth. Sometime, somehow, in the next few minutes a heavy cloud and the high peak of Mt. Redondo on Sao Miguel Island combined and snapped the threads. A truckman saw a flash of light on the mountain. Planes took off to search, and eight hours later a twisted, fire-blackened heap was sighted on the mountainside. In the Constellation's wreckage were its 48 dead, burned beyond recognition...
...Flash of a Knife. In 1943 when he began designing the first postwar Studebaker, Loewy decided that current cars were too bulky, too laden with chromium "spinach and schmalz," and had too many blind spots for the driver. What he wanted was slimness, grace and better visibility. To his staff he mapped the grand strategy: "Weight is the enemy . . . Whatever saves weight saves cost. The car must look fast, whether in motion or stationary. I want it to look as if it were leaping forward; I want 'built-in' motion ... If it looks 'stopped...