Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as the positive and negative electric charges are separated and stored in the thunder cloud until the electric potential reaches the breaking point and the lightning is released, so this new generator stores electricity until ready to discharge it in one blinding flash...
...came to the fore and eliminated his veterans. Moody, a rangy second year Green high-jumper, had cleared six feet and three inches to replace Herring, who had captured this event in the H-D-C meet the year before. In the broad jump, Glendenning, a former Andover flash, showed promise, and was in addition entered in the dash, the 300-yard run, and the relay. Other outside threats were Captain Russell of the Ithacan contingent and his teammate Goodwillie. They both were figured on to threaten the dash supremacy of Miller...
Suddenly a whisper. Lights flash up, blazing upon countless gems. The Peers and Peeresses rustle as they rise and bow. Majestically the King enters. As he paces slowly forward, his crown is a mount of diadems, his train seems to stretch behind inimitably, borne by chubby pages with neat legs and little slim Court swords. His Majesty is England, rich, historic. When he speaks, his Dominions will listen, in their newness and youth...
...last minute flash brought a 27-24 victory over the Exeter quintet to the Freshman basketball team Saturday night in a game played in the Thompson Gymnasium at Exeter. R.E. Seeger '31 and P.W. Mahady '31, in the close of the last period, shot two long baskets to bring the first year men victory...
Interesting observations on the shifting attitude of the public toward the U. S. policy in Nicaragua can be made in those great American meeting halls of thought and opinion, the movie palaces. A month ago, the news reel of Marines embarking, if accompanied by martial music and a flash of the Stars and Stripes was good for a creditable demonstration, hand clapping and whistling trailing off into original and gratuitous noises. A similar picture at Boston's largest theatre this week was received with a cold and stony silence. Not so at the Harvard's own University Theatre. Here...