Word: flickerings
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Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
...constant conflict between the extreme darkness surrounding the eye and the light reflected from the screen. Under such a condition the eye is not only more susceptible to the natural varying intensity of the light from the screen, but the adaptability of the eye is lowered and the slightest flicker or movement is more noticeable and detrimental...
...said with no drop of his calm eyes: "What must be asked of the surgeon is not that he should be young, but that he must not be old. When old age appears at the turning of the road, when the sacred fire begins to flicker, and the hand to tremble, and the eye to blur, it is then time that the surgeon should think of rest. Let him then do as 'the tired wayfarer, after a long journey, resting by the wayside, look on and watch the passers-by who have followed him in the rugged, but wondrous...
...Root has other problems than foreign debt settlements. He is watching his 82nd year flicker defiantly; he sees the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), which he helped to found in 1920, bandied about between Senate reservations and counter reservations (TIME, Oct. 4.). He hears politicians and editors, young enough to be his grandchildren, say that World Court membership for the U. S. is becoming impossible; he reads that the Official Spokesman (Mr. Coolidge), young enough to be his son, thinks the international outlook is gloomy. Perhaps Mr. Root is sitting at a desk in his Manhattan home writing...
Yellow is a tantalizing play. After shining with golden radiance through two scenes of masterful tragedy, it suddenly pales into the forced flicker of melodrama. Its unevenness is so extreme that the poor scenes seem doubly deficient, the better ones elusive. However, judged merely as melodrama, Yellow stands well above all its current competitors. It is the first play of Margaret Vernon, who reveals, certainly, potential brilliance...