Word: flashlights
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...open between the Chancellor's headquarters and the home of the dying President. In the afternoon, when death by dawn seemed certain, Chancellor Hitler left Berlin by plane and arrived at Neudeck with his personal photographer. Only strenuous remonstrance by Col. Oscar von Hindenburg prevented the taking of deathbed flashlight pictures of Nazi Hitler by the side of Hero Hindenburg. Sinking fast, Old Paul barely recognized Herr Hitler to whom his last words were "Ach, Herr Reichskanzler...
...flashlight beam danced on the snow as an excited farmer floundered toward the sound of a crash in his field near Petersburg, Ill. Etched out in the dark he found the wreckage half buried in snow, the four men all dead...
...straight out of an early Wells novel. A packed audience of moppets and grownups murmured as 2,700 stars winked in their proper places on the dim vault overhead, as the planets glowed, as the Milky Way streamed in soft splendor. A lecturer identified stars and constellations with a flashlight beam. As the projector moved on its complex nest of gears, aeons of astronomical time flashed by. Realizing that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse of infinity, Charles Hayden was moved as he had rarely been moved before. Back in his Manhattan office, Mr. Hayden heard...
...observatory is making an extensive study of this form of star, and has a collection of over 500 plates. Going at a rate of 40 miles a second, the meteor was brighter than Venus, an Observatory authority declared, casting a bright yellow light almost as strong as a flashlight held-at a distance of a few yards...
...into the Atlantic. For Pilot Van Orman, champion of two Bennett races and a veteran of many others, it would not have been strange to find himself at sea. Once in a European race he was carried out in the dead of night, signaled a passing steamer with a flashlight, alighted safely on deck...