Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Side. Sleeping off the effects of shipboard merrymaking, many of the 512 passengers-more than 80% of them Americans-never heard the cries of alarm. Some who did groggily dismissed them as the noise from another of the Noronic's boisterous parties. Overwhelmed by the flash fire's speed, the skeleton crew aboard the ship (30 out of 173) fought the fire for 13 minutes before sending an alarm to the Toronto Fire Department. Said one passenger later: "They might have been trying to put out hell with their fountain pens...
With the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
With the aid of-its vast mechanical memory for numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
...coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures and nods of his head...
...conducted in-his first love affair. Later that night, as he stands trembling in his mistress' closet listening to the husband's unexpected return, then as he flees naked down the hotel corridor, clutching his evening shoes and dinner coat, he remembers Casanova and realizes in a flash that this is what his tutors were talking about -the continuity of Western culture...