Word: flitted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...place to walk, and they would sit in smoke-filled rooms and dart like angry wasps at each other buzzing invective in ever-changing patterns. Under the blanket of heat that descends over the steeples and towers of Cambridge in the afternoon, the Charles sleeps while agile youths flit on the mirrored surface like water-spiders...
...tentacles of commercialism have reached out towards Harvard's Commencement activities. With a sense of mild wonder mingled with relief the CRIMSON learns from the chairman of the reunion committee of a recent class, which shall not be named, that he has been unable to secure from the Flit Company costumes, nice orange ones with a headband reading F-L-I-T, to be worn on the day of the Yale baseball game. "We tried to, but we couldn't manage it," this official ingenuously confessed...
...year; the gift of the twenty-five year class has been reduced by $50,000; those in charge of reunions have been whittling the cost per man down from the neighborhood of $60 to $20. And these uniforms which enable gay graduates to appear as farmers, highlanders, marines, or Flits cost sometimes as much as two dollars. It would thus be a not inconsiderable saving in the enterprising class's budget had they negotiated the deal which would have given them Fitting costumes free of charge. The plan to turn the prestige of a Harvard class day to saving...
...welcome, and museums with clean pictures, in all of which France is poor," four intelligentsiacs last summer deserted Paris to tour central Europe in an automobile. Novelist Wescott was along and, like a good intelligentsiac, kept his head rambling with the car. As the landscape from Paris to Bamberg flits before his eyes, thoughts on literature, religion, mankind-in-general flit behind. These he sets down deferentially "in fear and trembling" at generalizing on such knotty themes...
Last week Dr. Michelson started his latest machinery. A ray of light shuttled through the tube for a course of 44 mi. It was a swift flash, less than 1-4,000th of a second in duration, was mechanically clocked with minute precision. Again Dr. Michelson made the light flit; and again. Repetitions, which must be averaged, will take weeks. Dr. Michelson waved goodbye to his assistants, motored to the comforts of his home in Pasadena...