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Word: flashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (Universal). A stratospherical chapter of the 15-piece adventures of the fearless Flash, this is a Grade A cinemedition of the famed King Features strip. Chesty Flash (Larry Crabbe, onetime famed Olympic free-style swimmer) works desperately to save humanity on Earth from destruction by a nitrogen-destroying lamp erected on Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Bill "Flash" Graney, night janitor at Lowell House, proved himself the hero of the hour yesterday when he captured a cat for Julian Lowell Coolidge '96, professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FLASH' GRANEY RECAPTURES COOLIDGE'S LOST BLACK CAT | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

After the Coolidge household had been thrown into consternation when Mr. Coolidge's small black cat was nowhere to be found, "Flash" Graney moved into action. Judiciously depositing an attractive, if slightly used herring outside the janitor's office, he sat back snugly and awaited his victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FLASH' GRANEY RECAPTURES COOLIDGE'S LOST BLACK CAT | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

Like Adams, the Davenport hoopmen have mopped up the floor with their rivals. Which, say the Goldcoasters, means nothing. On Wednesday the Adams machine, with only one substitute, was edged by the Yardlings by a on point margin, despite Flash Hauck's 15 points. Final standings in inter-House squash: League A Won Lost Dunster 21 9 Eliot 19 10 Lowell 19 11 Adams 17 13 Winthrop 12 18 Leverett 10 20 Kirkland 6 23 League C Won Lost Adams 22 8 Eliot 20 10 Lowell 18 12 Dunster 14 16 Winthrop 14 16 Leverett 13 17 Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldcoast Hoopmen Face Yale College Champions Here Today | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

...playing a tune like Annie Laurie almost as simple as swatting flies on a windowpane. The principle is the same as that of the old-fashioned player piano, minus that part of the machinery which does the actual pressing & releasing of the keys. A motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees a flash he pounces. While the Piano Master requires a specially built piano, a modification, the Key Master, may be fitted to any old family upright. The Key Master flashes lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flashlight Piano | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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