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Word: flashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped into a tobacco store to buy and light a cigar. The store's owner had ignorantly connected a small 6-volt electric cigar-lighter to a high-powered city current. Schall put his face down to the lighter, gave it a flick. A terrific flash followed which permanently blinded both his eyes. With his wife's assistance he continued his law practise. She read him the cases; he argued them in court. In 1914 the backwash of the 1912 Bull Moose movement carried him to the House of Representatives as a Progressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...what looked like an offside play, Giddens took the puck from Wood near the blue line and, cleverly eluding an opposing defender, flipped in into the right corner of the net. It was an outstanding piece of work by Harvard's Canadian flash, but it put an end to a game of what was for the most part uninteresting hockey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HOCKEY TEAM OUTCLASSES UNIVERSITY CLUB | 2/13/1930 | See Source »

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