Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First French Films of the season, "Le Barbier de Seville" and "Les Necos de Figaro", will flash on the screen at the Geographical Institute in four performances on Thursday and on Friday...
Franklin Roosevelt hopped out of his car with Governor Lehman in tow, planted himself and the Governor in the centre of the chorus, perched Legion caps on both their heads, added his rich baritone to a rendition of There's A Long, Long Trail while photographers' flash bulbs winked...
...House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg, Va., banks, museums, warehouses, art galleries, libraries, laundries. In this device, concealed in the walls, the heat of a burning wastebasket is enough to expand the air in the tube, move a small diaphragm, close an electrical circuit, flash an alarm to the central fire station...
...whatever they would bring in dollars. Secretary Morgenthau, alert at his desk in Washington, instantly used the $2,000,000,000 U. S. stabilization fund to buy the British money offered by the Bolsheviks. He then angrily exploded to Washington correspondents whom he hastily summoned, asking them to flash news of what he had done throughout the world. This flash could be counted on to warn money speculators everywhere that they would get their fingers burned if they tried to manipulate for reasons of private profit the dollars, pounds and francs with which it is the exalted mission of Morgenthau...
...wind is so fast we can't walk against it, autos can't get through, there are no lights and communications. . . . People here don't keep much food on hand and the dairy, milk, ice, meat -all food service is gone. It takes a revealing flash like this to -GET THE HELL OFF THIS LINE! Not you, New York, just a minute...