Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio stations, strung around the world so as to form a closed circuit of communication, would flash time signals to one another. From the difference between the times flashed by stations in Heligoland and Hawaii, and the times simultaneously recorded in stations at Halifax and Seattle, the degrees of longitude between any two stations could nf be very accurately computed. Any slide of this continent would readily appear from further longitudinal determinations made 5, 10, 15 years afterward...
Argentina. Like the flash that precedes the thunder, the Prince of Wales' chauffeur arrived in Buenos Aires to study the capital preparatory to driving his royal master about it. The Prince is expected from Uruguay...
...York and the first automobile cluster quaintly about a gentle love story of the little seamstress and the town dandy. Fine old costumes and deft direction by Sidney Olcott. Betty Bronson plays the little lady with the thimble. Her exceedingly agreeable activities prove that she was no flash in the Peter...
Agreeable activities ... no flash in the Peter...
...Miss Mary K. Browne in the semi-final and expected an exciting match, became interested. In the third set Mrs. Mallory played hard, Miss Goss played harder. The games stood at five all. Miss Goss won the odd game, prepared to serve. Then the gallery at Providence perceived a flash of the nervous stamina that has made Mrs. Mallory six times champion of the U. S. With the loss oi only three points, she won the next three games, the match, the Rhode Island championship. Miss Mary K. Browne and Miss Goss defeated Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup and Miss Edith...