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Word: flashed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like an aging lion's when Poland is mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...laga, Picasso's characteristic recollection is a singing motorman whose streetcar's speed depended, not on the company's timetable, but on the rhythm of the song he steered by-gay or melancholy, galloping or slow. The mind of little Pablo appears in a revealing flash in a story of his being given a pair of roller skates: instead of skating on them he took them apart and, with huge amusement, attached each pair of wheels to the flippers of an enormous tortoise, whose slow progress around the patio had annoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...should top 13 feet; Charley Oldfather, lanky Sophomore who will run the 1000; Gene Clark, who last year covered the mile stretch in 4.25; Pen Tuttle, whose entrance in the two mile run is doubtful after an illness earlier this week; and Bob Partlow, Sophomore broad and high jump flash, who does around 22 feet, 6 inches in the former event, and should top 6 feet, 2 inches in the latter tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Accident | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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