Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Straus, who is Chairman of the Committee on Employment of the Harvard Club of New York City, tells a significant story of a brilliant college graduate who was offered a position involving statistical work in a large plant. Once at work, "Dean, the graduate in question, showed a flash of real brilliancy in analyzing the operations of two departments. The unfortunate factor was that in getting his data Dean antagonized every man he met. His sense of 'superiority,' his inability to handle other men or to mix with them, his continual complaints, oral and written, to his immediate superior...
...those who could not procure tickets will be given in Mechanics Building tomorrow afternoon. The board is the same as that which has been used at the Stadium for the last two Saturdays, and every play of the game will be shown as soon as the telegraph can flash it in to Boston...
...Physical Conference, Crufts Laboratory, Room 39. "Flash and Sound Ranging by the American Forces in France", Professor Lyman...
Except the fiares and the rifle flash and the blind death whimpering round...
...Flattened indistinct drums jarred the column forward. And every thud of them was a flash more of light let into the otherwise enternity of a peasant barmaid's obesity. . . Tum . . T-T. Tum, Tum, Tum. . Georgiette!. . . Georgiette...