Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separated the corporation into those who jumped to the left, and those who jumped to the right, to avoid disaster. Only one man took a determined stand. With his head bent slightly forward in characteristic pose, he applied a deft hand to the collar that shot past like a flash of light. The machine went on; but the rider, out of breath and speechless at the austerity of the new circumstances was safely tethered. The corporation replaced its hats and moved on, definitely jovial now, and disappeared into University Hall. The wind struck at the Vagabond again, and he walked...
...newsphotographers were witnesses. They had their lenses focussed on the President to snap him as he autographed book for War veterans' benefit. The Picture of the Century-the assassination -occurred at that moment. Bearded Louis Piston, who has been photographing celebrities around Paris for 45 years, dropped his flash, swung his camera overhead, clubbed Assassin Gorgulov with it. Photographer Piston got no picture. Last week it became known that he had been elevated to the Legion of Honor. U. S. newsphotographers are notoriously less polite than Europeans. Ambushed behind furniture, down dark passageways, at turns of staircases, a corps...
Anyone, he claims, "can memorize a string of numbers. Except I do it quicker. I do it in a flash. Everything is in a flash with me. When I demonstrated for Einstein he said a second is for me what an hour is for someone else. He said the second stretches in my mind and is a long time in which I can work. There is nothing different about my mind, except for numbers. For numbers I am a genius...
Around the new Gordon Bennett winners these patriarchs formed an admiring circle, prompting them with technical questions about the race, clucking over the answers with nostalgic appreciation, marvelling open-mouthed at Van Orman's description of his instruments that sound a buzzer and flash a red light when the altitude of his balloon begins to fluctuate. Lieut.-Commander Settle, a mathematically-minded engineer who inspects the construction of Navy dirigibles, described their homeward voyage on the Graf in precise, unimaginative terms. But Van Orman's gaunt face brightened, his eyes shone as he exclaimed: "Never have...
Immediately windows are closed with a bang and lights flash on all over barracks. The plebes (first year men) have started to dream. Gradually more lights wink on over the snow covered area until at three minutes of six every light in barracks is on. It requires a piehe ten minutes to dress, while an upperclassman can do it in two minutes...