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Word: flash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make him over. But Joe Louis, still an unsophisticated, overgrown kid, steadfastly refused to go high-hat. He still won't go to the theater, read books, talk politics. But he can talk till the cows come home about swing bands, baseball, golf and his saddle horses, Flash and Annabelle White Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Moses | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...dense as the earth's atmosphere at the surface, but 80 miles up it may be as dense as ours (because of the moon's lesser gravitational pull), and the earth's atmosphere 80 miles up is still dense enough to destroy most meteors in a flash long before they get near the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twinkle, Twinkle | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Some who had looked away from the blast turned their eyes to sea and saw a great phosphorescent geyser where the 16-in. projectiles plunged into the ocean. Others, who had traded sight of the great flash for what would come later, shook their heads, rubbed their eyes and began to see again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Biggest Roar Afloat | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...recipe for controlling the masses. Mein Kampf told how it could be done. My New Order shows Hitler doing it. For Hitler towers among history's demagogues because he understands better than others that the timing between oratory and action must be like the interval between the flash and the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mein Kampf Illustrated | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tiddlygolf | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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