Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tragedy in four acts will flash across the screen in New Lecture Hall at 8 p.m. tonight when movies of the 1949 Harvard Yale football game will be shown...
...arguments about their comparative virtues. The solidest single fact is that the CBS system, developed to high perfection by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, turns out pictures which are bright, crisp, and at least as faithful as most colored movies. Their own special ill is a so-called "color flash." If the viewer looks away suddenly, he sees the picture momentarily in a single color, because of the persistence in the eye of the last one-color picture seen. A color flash is seldom noticed unless it is looked...
...factory type would be wrecked. Even at a radius 1½ miles from zero, the brick walls of houses would be blown down. Many people spared by the blast and the flying rubble within the three-mile diameter of the seared circle would be killed or injured by the flash of heat and radiation...
...Paunch and Flash Experts...
Harbury's colleagues were puzzled that the relatively mild shock he received killed him. "Many of us have taken greater shocks," Chaffee said. Harbury bad only a slight burn on the finger and he wasn't held to the line at all. There was just a flash...