Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steve Pratt and Ted Bullard took their singles matches, Pratt pulling his into the credit column in a last minute flash of prowess. Number one doubles team, Vincent Brandt and Ted Backe, won the only doubles match completed...
...been with a French unit evacuated from Dunkirk. At a small English seaside hotel, under continual bombing, he had been astonished at the behavior of the two women hotelkeepers, who kept up their life as if it were a holiday season in peace. "I recognized in a flash," said the French priest, "we must be formidable too, and that it was possible-above all, that it was possible...
Crash warning radars were first demonstrated by Howard Hughes and installed on his Trans World Airline (TIME, May 12). They flash lights (some of them also sound horns or buzzers) when the plane comes within 1,000 or 2,000 feet of an obstacle, either ahead or below. Chief value: the pilot is warned that an unseen mountain, or other dangerous "terrain," is close. The warning gives him time to climb out of trouble...
Fifty-six hopefuls showed up for the flash-bulb barrage and then knocked and goosed the ball around in the short warm-up session...
Walt McCurdy regained a flash of his mid-season mastery to help knot Saturday's photofinish tilt, and Bill Prior and John Rockwell looked better than ever. They'll need to be. After tonight it will be all work, all Ivy League. Probably Starting Lineups HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Hauptfuhrer lf Hazon Rockwell rf Burke Prior c Kubachka Brady lg Barker Gannon rg Sullivan