Word: flutterings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognized neutrons. Or they may be electrons drifting down from the heavily ionized, pulsating casing called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer which at a distance of 100 mi. or so encloses Earth as a shell encloses its yolk. Against that yielding, yet fluctuating casing radio waves rebound and in it flutter the curtains of the Northern Lights...
...resigned, as he contemplated the habits of pigeons in Akron last week. The birds were to be used this week in the christening ceremonies of the Navy's huge new dirigible Akron, of which Commander Wicks is construction superintendent. It was his hope that the pigeons would flutter gaily out through the orange-peel doors of the dock and streak for home when Mrs. Herbert Hoover set them free. Hence the suggestions of the Akron's officers: "The thing to do is starve the pigeons first. . . . Get only males that haven't had shore leave...
...evening three Lutheran pastors in white ties and black frock coats arrived. They were taken to the cell of Germany's most dangerous criminal, mild-mannered, flutter-fingered Peter Kuerten, "the Diisseldorf Fiend" (TIME...
...talkie Sunny Side Up Fox directors have been faced with the apparently impossible task of finding for Actress Janet Gaynor another role in which she would be able to give an equally profitable demonstration of her appealing sweetness and charm. This sentimental romance gives Actress Gaynor a chance to flutter about in an orphan asylum, endearing herself to the authorities by telling stories to the other orphans and feeding them icecream. A youthful philanthropist (Warner Baxter) who sees her in the performance of her good turns finds her behavior so cajoling that he decides to pay her way through college...
...came over the Vagabond a few short days ago that a college year was dying. What was it old Omar said, "The Bird of term has but a little way to flutter?" And there came with his regret at seeing the old order changing, the wanderlust. He crammed his briar, swung his great grey Burberry around his shoulders, and was off. The old fellow strode along the banks of father Charles off which the evening mists were rising, and on which the evening mists were rising, and on which the evening dews were falling. How long he walked...