Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little time was wasted in extolling the public benefits of any of the curtailed projects. The meeting nearly broke up in the stamping, hurrahs and whistles which greeted Rankin's joyous reading of the news flash that Henry Wallace had been fired from the Cabinet (see cut). When the Roosevelt's mirrored walls had ceased to shake, the session resolved to reappropriate the whole caboodle when Congress meets again...
News wires soon burned with the flash that a giant rockfall had plunged from the brink of the American Falls. Buffalo hastily reported that the shock had registered on the seismograph of Canisius College. An engineer of the Niagara park commission estimated the break to be 125 feet across and 30 feet deep, added that his view had been partly obscured by the mists. The reliable Associated Press released an aerial photo carefully marking the "Break of September 20, 1946." Said a Page One headline in the sober New York Times: AMERICAN FALLS NOW A HORSESHOE...
...will be strapped in a seat mounted on gimbals, so that it can be locked in any position. The air he breathes can be pumped away to simulate altitudes up to 60,000 feet. As the Gs begin to multiply, a television tube will stare him in the face, flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal organs. Before his eyes, little lights will flash...
...news of the day came after practice, of course, when Cleo O'Donnell was re-elected to the captaincy he never served. Another announcement from the HAA disclosed that Torby MacDonald, '39 flash and captain and now in his last year in the Law School, will assist Henry Lamar as a backfield coach of the Freshman team; a George Hibbard, another former great, will also help with the Yardlings...
Those in the know are inclined to believe that among the people who read the ad were a Boston Globe reporter and photographer. Ideas popped; and shortly later, as Potter entered his room in Straus Hall to be greeted by the girls plus a section of the Globe staff, flash bulbs also popped...