Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flash of a firefly is a mating call. The unfertilized female waits in the grass, flashes in answer. In one common species, investigators have found that the male flashes regularly once every 5.7 sec. and" Mr. Buck discovered that the female replies 2.1 sec. later. Exchange of signals continues until they meet & mate. But other males may join the quest for the same female, and in answering her they get their flashes into phase with the first suitor on the scene. By selecting a cruising male and responding to its signal with a flash from an electric torch...
...That's your masterpiece, Harrington," said a voice behind her. "Yes," came the satisfied answer. "But the anguish it cost me. I tell you the creation of a good work drains your soul . . . that terrible straining to convey a flash you've had of something . . . something...
...lusty Briton. Horowitz played the Tchaikovsky Concerto with his hands racing all over the keyboard, tossing off trills and smashing out chords as if he were a Rubinstein. Horowitz was 24 then and an instant sensation. But sane critics were chary with their praise for playing that had more flash than meaning...
...Lights flash up and the crowd roars as two men come back into the ring for the last fall. They stand for a moment in their corners, shifting their feet in the rosin, then turn upon each other as the bell clangs. They come together warily. The little man steps in suddenly and shoots a mule-kick to the pit of the stomach. The big ogre roars with pain, points a finger at the referee, implores the crowd. As he does this the little man flashes in to kick him again, harder. This time the ogre drops to the floor...
Since the courtroom doors were to be locked during the verdict formalities, the A. P. man in the courtroom carried a brief case containing a short-wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...