Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clubs and news-thirsty individuals in Buenos Aires wanted TIME on time, or as near it as possible. Air Express was the answer. So we organized the TIME on Time Club of Argentina and now Panairliners flash the red TIME signal of hot world news down to Miami, over the Caribbean, along the Pacific coast and over the Andes to us in four and a half days...
...East, Ivy League rooters crowed lustily for Cornell last week. Against Dartmouth, Carl Snavely's boys showed that their early-season victory over Ohio State, mightiest of the mighty Big Ten, was no flash in the pan. Playing as no Cornell team has played since the famed Gil Dobie machines of 1921-22-23, they made a good Dartmouth team look like wooden Indians, scalped them 35-to-6, chalked up their seventh successive victory this season...
...called over to Torby. "Hey, Flash, a hand with this shirt." Torby came over and yanked the jersey into place over the shoulder pads, so that big "52" slid down somewhere between his shoulder blades. He turned and grinned at Torby. Torby looked a little anxious. Tom whispered over...
...horrible are the artificial epileptic fits forced by metrazol that practically no patients ever willingly submit. Common symptoms are a "flash of blinding light," an "aura of terror." One patient described the treatment as death "by the electric chair." Another asked piteously: "Doctor, is there any cure for this treatment...
...competition the men of Finland are noted for the intensity of their efforts--plugging, determined efforts rather than competition of the flash-in-the-pan sort. They are characterized as patriotically inspired to victory but on the other hand are reputed to be hard-headed, reluctant losers...