Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay hurled. . . . Attorney General Mitchell plays a fast game. . . . Secretary of Agriculture Hyde disports himself creditably. . . . The President is a lusty player. His specialty is catching high ones and throwing them in hard-to-get returns. . . . Dr. Boone, the President's physician, is small, dark, quick as a flash. . . . Mark Sullivan, journalist, plays a hard game." Author of the article: William Atherton Du Puy, press agent of Dr. Wilbur's Interior Department...
...cinemataphotography, pictures flash on the screen at the rate of 960 per minute...
...minute, and the whirling cell at one end of the bar can be seen through the stationary eyepiece over its centre. But the image thus presented was blurred, since it was seen in motion as it passed the light. Scientists Loomis & Harvey fixed the light so that it would flash on and off, each Hash coinciding with the reappearance of the cell beneath the lamp. Thus a series of distinct, clear pictures was presented-8,000 of them to the minute, so many that the eye could not detect the periods of darkness...
...litre capacity, with a stem two metres long and 70 millimetres in diameter. He pumped out the air and moisture, filled the flask with nitrogen gas, sealed it. Around the stem he wrapped a wire, touched the wire to a 25,000-volt high-frequency generator. There was a flash, then the bulb began to glow with a bright yellow light. It continued to glow for 35 minutes after the shock had been administered. Four months later, Professor Knipp repeated the procedure. For no reason that he could see the bulb remained bright for no minutes. The third time...
...Japanese Admiralty received a news flash from Shanghai that a Chinese mob had "brutally beaten" two Japanese women on Yangtzepoo Road at 5:30 p. m. Out ripped Admiralty orders. By 6:30 p. m. the Japanese destroyers Hinoki and Momo were streaking for Shanghai, chief Chinese port. At dawn two more Japanese destroyers followed...