Word: flickerings
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...Jean Marie François de Haute-cloque, an idealistic onetime soldier and longtime diplomat, who, as a French representative in the Levant, saw France lose Syria and Lebanon in the dark days of World War II. In Tunisia, since the bloody riots last January, he had seen sabotage flicker over the country like heat lightning. Eleven post offices, seven bridges, 15 trains, 646 telephone poles had been blown up. Every time De Haute-cloque tried for a man-to-man interview with Sidi Mohammed el-Amin, the Bey of Tunis, whom Tunisians regard as their ruler, he found...
...strange silence engulfs the city, broken only by the infrequent whimpering of a shattered milliner. Peace descends, the western sky assumes the soft reds and blues of a New England sunset, and the first calm note of the angelus rings out over the countryside. Lights are beginning to flicker and glow in dormer windows. Let us take our leave now, softly, quietly...
...whereas a frosted bulb has a luminance of about 5 c/cm 2. To use a favorite American expression, doctors recommend that the eyes should not be subjected to a luminance of more than 2 c/cm. 2. 3) do not hum unless the ballast is defective. 4) do not flicker. But even if fluorescent lights had all those defects, I do not see how they could possibly make anyone wear bifocals. A certain number of students who can be seen from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in Lamont Library apparently agree with me. Jacques Paryske...
...your January seventh issue, you state that "students should be able to see better than ever" with the new fluorescent lamps that have been installed at tremendous cost in Widener Library. Besides being a general nuisance, these new light 1) irritate the eyes. 2) hum. 3) flicker. It is this combination that leads me to ask who wanted these lights put in. Supposedly, they were put in for our benefit. Now let's see them taken out again, at least from the small reading rooms of Widener's main hall. Then students who prefer direct lighting may once more study...
...censors previewed "Dreams That Money Can Buy" yesterday before its scheduled evening performances at the New Lecture Hall to make sure the movie was fit for local consumption. The officers watched the screen intently for ninety-three minutes but failed to find any over-realistic scenes in the surrealist flicker...