Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approved by the State Department."- 9) "High public officials in the next administration will neither by word nor deed seek to influence the prices of stocks or bonds." While Republicans cried "Demagog!" and "childish" after the Columbus speech, many a Democrat, encouraged by the nominee's flash and fire, began to feel that here was, after all, another Roosevelt for national leader...
...coroner's jury uncovered evidence of sex maladjustment. Mrs. Reynolds, almost hysterical, declared her mind was a total blank for July 5. "The only picture I have," she moaned, "is Smith standing over me on the sleeping porch. First he called my name. Then there was a flash and then that crash of the universe - just like every thing falling around me. And that feeling of his head in my arms and the warm blood." The jury concluded that Smith Reynolds had come to his death at the hands of a "person or persons unknown" (TIME, July...
When they came out to the court again after the rest, no one would have been much surprised to see Borotra tire or to see Vines's strokes begin to flash and sparkle as they had at Wimbledon. Borotra won the first game on his own. serve. The match stopped while policemen interrupted a fight in the grandstand. Vines won three games. Borotra won them back. Serving at 4-5, Vines slammed his cannonball into the court but the clay made it bounce slowly. At match point, he netted a drive and ran up to the net to shake...
...flash seems instantaneous, without beginning or end. But it must begin at one point, go to another, because the resistance of the air to the electric stress must break at one point. Dr. Simpson has shown that it always goes from a positively charged body to one negatively charged. The Earth's surface is negatively charged, the atmosphere positively. Whenever a lacy branching showed in photographs of the flash, Dr. Simpson has taken the direction the branches pointed as indicating the negative pole. But his theory has been that the top of the cloud is negative, the bottom positive...
...claimed that the top of the cloud is positive, the bottom negative, and Nebraska Wesleyan's Jensen last month backed him up in the Physical Review. Sitting at night in the window of a high campus building long-jawed, slow-spoken Professor Jensen has been taking photographs of lightning flashes for seven years using a large-size news camera with an extra large lens. For the past two years, with his son's help, he has also been using an insulated metal deck connected with a galvanometer and the ground to measure the nature of the Earth charge after...