Word: flickeringly
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...Crimson fencing squad wrapped up one more disappointing season on Saturday with a final flicker of success. They beat Yale...
Compared to these shining lights of governmental stability, the three-year-old Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs seems a brief flicker. Yet astute observers of parliamentary history can learn much from its fall. Britain's institutions have endured because they once relied on the stable source of power in the society, the landowning nobility. If any government is to succeed here, it too must turn to the aristocracy for guidance and support. It must faithfully represent the interests of the College's hereditary nobility, the clubbies...
...carnations, daffodils. Before going out into Palace Yard, each one paused and looked back. Often dignitaries would enter the hall through another door. But though the queue shared the hall with Queen Elizabeth, with De Gaulle and Germany's Chancellor Erhard, there was never a stare or a flicker of recognition. Before the casket of Winston Churchill, all mourners were equal...
Liturgy & Prayer. If Eliot spoke for youth's despairs ("I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,/And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,/And in short, I was afraid"), he apparently scarcely knew its exhilarations. Though he was born in St. Louis, the son of a wholesale grocer, his roots ran back to New England and the upright Unitarianism of his clergyman grandfather. At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published...
...faster than light, any object that changes in brilliance cannot be larger than the distance light would travel during the period of fluctuation. Even the crowded nuclei of normal galaxies are many thousand light-years in diameter, so no known influence could cross them quickly enough to make them flicker on a monthly tempo. An object that flickers so fast would have to be less than one light-year in diameter, unless it follows physical laws that are wholly unsuspected by human scientists...