Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Torby Macdonald must be classed as the flash of the running backs. His work so far has been very pleasing to the coaches. He is by far the fastest man on the field. Under him at wingback is Burnett who, though not the runner Macdonald is, has done some excellent kicking, which has definitely been a weak feature of the Harlow regime...
...last week. He then proceeded to turn the annual Nazi Party Congress into a great, step-by-step building of war fright throughout Europe. The evident object was to bluff Czechoslovakia and her friends into the best possible deal for the Sudeten Germans and give Hitler another triumph to flash before his people...
When chubby little Norbert Wiener was 14, he graduated from Tufts College. Reporters hailed him, and parents of ordinary children predicted that he would be a flash in the pan. When Norbert was 18, he emerged from Harvard with a Ph.D. and an academic halo which grew brighter as he studied at Göttingen, Cambridge, Columbia. Today Norbert Wiener, at the age of 43, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ranks as one of the topflight mathematicians in the U. S. A familiar figure on the Tech campus, with...
This meeting was the final flash of a highly electric U. A. W. week. When President Martin heard it had been called, he promptly called two rival meetings of his own, one the same day in Detroit for the heads of U. A. W.'s Michigan locals, another next day in Cleveland for Ohio locals-in order to make union men choose which side they would meet with. But having announced his intention to keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars...
...more reporters and photographers who covered the story, the assignment was simple and harrowing. Reporters picked out handy telephones, photographers found good angles, glued their fingers to camera triggers-and waited (see cut). Nightfall meant the complication of flash bulbs for photographers, a more lurid scene for excited spectators who bought binoculars and made bets on whether Warde would jump. Most spectacular shots were caught by Associated Press Cameraman Harold Harris (Warde, arms akimbo, plummeting past the sixth floor of the hotel), and Acme Cameraman Charles Haacker (Warde toppling from the hotel marquee, police scurrying...