Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want a whole lot." President Hoover grinned. ¶ Over a new 3,000-mi. wire leased by the Associated Press to connect New York and Mexico City, President Hoover sent the first message to President Ortiz Rubio. Excerpt: "I earnestly trust that the news that will flash back and forth over this wire will reflect an ever increasing sympathy between our countries...
...Einstein is interested in getting an exact measure of light's speed because it bears on his theories of the curvature and limitation of space. He will be able to put his eye to Dr. Michelson's eyepiece, watch the light flash in a 32-faced revolving mirror placed at one end of the tube. The mirror is adjusted so that by the time the light beam has raced away from it, down the mile tube and back again, another one of its 32 faces has turned to catch the light. By measuring the time it takes...
...flash, a moment of gameness was all that Princetonians asked of a team which since the beginning of the season had not beaten anybody except one minor opponent. Instead, scored on by a fluke field goal in the first two minutes, Princeton somehow became for i hr., 19 min. one of the great teams of the U. S. The heroes were the linesmen, led by Mexican-born Capt. Ricardo Mestres, who broke through to drop the great Yale backs, and Quarterback Trix Bennett who played without a rest, who scored the touchdown that put Princeton ahead at the half...
...Hearst's San Francisco Examiner had just made one "shot" of The Chief ("WR") being handshaken at city hall by Mayor James ("Sunny Jim'') Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder bottle...
...Prince & Whitely, Manhattan brokers, opened a branch office in the old Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C., engaged the first private wire from the Capitol to Manhattan. On July 2, 1881, this wire was used to flash word of President James A. Garfield's assassination, giving Prince & Whitely clients an advantageous time margin in the market shock which followed. At that time the firm was three years old. Since then it has survived many a severe depression including at least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile...