Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word of testimony once it is on the record. One of his most famed convictions was that of former New York State Superintendent of Banks Frank H. Warder for his part in the failure of Manhattan's City Trust Co. in 1929. At 47, his black eyes flash, his black hair bristles...
Through pedagogs' dreams flash the golden names of colleges which are currently hunting presidents: Harvard, Princeton, Virginia, Illinois, Toledo. Changes are expected at Washington; its President Matthew Lyle Spencer submitted a perfunctory resignation last month. Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president...
...carriers were strong aloft, weak afloat. The Blues had all the battleships. Black bombers from a divided force peppered San Pedro and San Francisco but heavy Blue guns (firing 1-lb. blanks) took make-believe toll on the Lexington and Saratoga. Most unexpected occurrence in the "war" was a flash from the Navy Department in Washington ordering the battleships Arizona and West Virginia to consider themselves suddenly torpedoed...
...down its 130 words-per-minute automatic transmitters to a crawling 25 words-per-minute pace. Soon Washington asked for a speed-up to 75, impatient Shanghai clamored for 100. But Buenos Aires said they could handle not more than 30 words-per-minute and the League refused to flash faster than that. Long before the ten hours were up, the Imperial Japanese Government and they alone had received the whole 15,000 words of bad news by cable from Geneva, paying almost $1 per word...
...fool firing blank cartridges." Not until he saw Mayor Cermak drop did he realize what was happening. Then he wriggled out of the crowd, raced by Mr. Roosevelt who was calling out "I'm all right," and dove to a telephone under the park bandstand to send a flash...