Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record this season has not been of a consistently promising calibre, the Big Green packs a dangerous threat in W. H. Morton, center ice, who piloted last Fall's melodramatic football eleven and vied with Wood for All American honors. Wood will again play opposite the New Rochelle flash when he assumes his regular berth as keystone man in the Crimson attacking line, flanked by Captain Cunningham and Baldwin...
...Hannagan again encountered Carl Fisher who was then developing Miami Beach. Mourning the fact that the Press made no distinction between Miami and Miami Beach, three miles from the mainland, Promoter Fisher again hired Hannagan. Few days later Hannagan wired his first dispatch to United Press: MIAMI BEACH FLA - FLASH - JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON POLO FIELD HERE STOP DONT FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE...
...stark accounts of conditions. Native attacks on white women became so prevalent, protection by the native police appeared so ineffective and bungling, that admirals in charge at Pearl Harbor publicly announced that Oahu was unsafe for the wives of naval officers. Then came the Kahahawai murder?apparently a blinding flash of white revenge...
...carburetor during winter operation. Also, like the Diesel, it permits the use of cruder and less inflammable fuels. Successful tests were made with a "safety" gas recently developed by Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Produced by hydrogenation, this fuel will not ignite below 107° F. ("flash point"). The flash point of ordinary gasolines lies anywhere between...
When he heard the East a-calling Harte responded with alacrity. Boston and Manhattan lionized him; he enjoyed it. But he acted like a flash in the pan: fell down on writing contracts, got into debt, antagonized lion-hunters. When Statesman John Hay once complained to Harte that he was short of funds, Harte replied: "Your own fault. Why did you fool away your money paying your debts?" When friends got him the job of U. S. commercial agent at Crefeld, Germany he took it gratefully, though it meant leaving his wife and family behind. He never rejoined them: from...