Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler is a prodigy there has never been any dispute. He was graduated from high school at 13, had his Ph.D. at 22, became a member of Columbia University's faculty at 23. "I saw in a flash," said Columbia's Dean John William Burgess later, "that he would become president of Columbia and that Columbia would become the greatest institution on earth." Today, at 77, Dr. Butler has 37 honorary degrees, decorations from almost every important nation, a column and a quarter in the U. S. Who's Who, almost a column...
Last word in adventure comics, Superman is rapidly becoming the No. 1 juvenile vogue in the U. S. A happy combination of Flash Gordon and Popeye the Sailor, Superman is an individual with the speed of an airplane, the strength of a locomotive, the leap of a cricket and the hide of a man of war. He was born on a distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only...
Epee, foil, and sabre flash under the supervision of Rene Peroy, coach of fencing. Owing to the lack of experienced material in the first-year class, the beginner often makes the team...
...Saratoga's opening day this week, 15 youngsters met in the 70-year-old Flash Stakes, oldest U. S. race for two-year-olds. With 8,000 spectators looking on, Epatant, a bay colt owned by Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, a third-generation racing Whitney, ran away from the field, finished two lengths in front of Cousin Sonny Whitney's Parasang, joined the list of this year's outstanding juveniles...
...Appleby, was a little girl, she was terrified of every kind of insect ("I'd run a mile from a daddy long-legs") except fireflies, which she loved. She began to read up on fireflies, learned a lot of things about them-for example, that what makes them flash is a luminous substance called luciferin secreted in their abdomens, that most entomologists believe the flash is a mating call. Mary Ellen does not plan to be an entomologist, however. At college she is minoring in music, plans to major in journalism...