Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Western athletes preen themselves on their consistency, point to the rarity among them of a form reversal, a "flash in the pan." Last week, the favorite won in nearly every event. Favored Michigan won its 12th conference championship...
Paris had been extremely nervous lest Adolf Hitler win the German election and repudiate the Treaty of Versailles. Massed in the Place de l'Opera, a tense French throng awaited bulletins. Suddenly, when the flash came that Herr Hitler had definitely not been elected, a joyous French cheer went up "Vive Hindenburg! Vive la France...
...main dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Western Union Telegraph Co. installed complete cable and telegraph stations and three translux machines to flash messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would...
...When Columbia's President Seth Low was elected Mayor of New York, everyone knew who would succeed him. Of an early faculty meeting at which young Professor Butler spoke, the late Dean John William Burgess later remarked: "I saw in a flash . . . that he would become president of Columbia and that Columbia would become the greatest institution on earth." Today Columbia University has 31,978 students in residence, is the world's largest institution of learning for men & women. Monuments to Dr. Butler are Teachers' College and its many affiliates, and Columbia's great summer school. Dr. Butler secured...
...flight from France to Madagascar its wireless called for help. Forced down somewhere in the vast Sahara, the flyers. Jean Reginensi, Robert Lenier, Joseph Touge, were unhurt but thirsty. Rescue planes began hunting, but the stranded flyers could not state their location. For three days the crew continued to flash piteous accounts of their increasing thirst. In return they received messages of love from their families, advice to burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third day the radio failed, its last message expressing thanks for the efficient communications but adding...