Word: flickering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise a child, frightened little Mureth Gavril trying to escape her mother's dominance, all with their noses close to the grindstone, all burdened with debts, worry, obligations to relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain away their incomes. A sentimental and static tale despite this promising dramatic setup, The Sound of Running Feet ends inconclusively with little more than the presentation of the dilemmas of the characters, although when...
...Flicker, Prime requisite of a heavyweight champion is that he be a superfighter. To prove that he is still the superfighter that boxing experts considered him until Max Schmeling gave him a workman- like beating last June, was the task that confronted Detroit's coffee-colored, 22-year-old Joe Louis. More specifically, Louis' job last week was to knock out Boston's 33-year-old Jack Sharkey, now back in the ring, after two years' retirement, to secure additional working capital for his none too prosperous Boston barroom...
Majesty, the royal and imperial grandmother asked amiably: "Whom have I the honor of receiving?" Announced Lilybet: "Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug!" This caused not a flicker upon the countenance of Her Majesty, but after the game was over she asked, "How did you happen to think of such queer names?" "Oh, we didn't think of them," explained Lilybet. "While we were dressing up to play, Uncle David came in. We told him we needed some new names and he suggested 'Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug...
...much power does it draw in operation, that the lights in Perkins flicker and dim while the transmitter is in operation, thus interfering with the graduate's studious activities...
...Ability." Meantime at Atlanta, the Southeastern Conference shed a flicker of realistic light on the problem of professionalism by agreeing as follows: "Athletic ability should receive consideration ... in the assignment of scholarships. . . ." But the Conference was quick to hedge this frank position by resolving that "such assistance shall never be granted primarily as a reward for athletic services" and that it would include only expenses for books, tuition, board, lodging...