Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...eight yards around the end; and Coroett went through the centre for five yards. Upton failed to gain because S. Morison was off-side, but for the same reason Harvard got five yards. A punt by Trafford gave McClung a chance to muff. He did so, and quick as flash, Hallowell had picked up the ball; he ran forty yards and scored a touchdown. The umpire decided, however, that Cumnock's interference had been unfair, and the ball was brought back to the centre. For some time neither team made appreciable gains, and the ball exchanged hands twice. It came...
...been so intimate with all the afternoon, and sought an early opportunity to fold him in a loving embrace. McClung, however, gained five yards, and Wallis five more. Bliss was given the ball but he fumbled it and John Cranston was upon it like a flash...
...work of Harvard the better. For twenty minutes the play was in Harvard's territory. Bowdoin used her heavy rush line effectively, and by sheer weight forced the ball down to Harvard's 12 yard line. Here W. Hilton fumbled the ball, and Newell was on it like a flash; scrambling to his feet he threw off the man who had tackled him and rushed 40 yards before he was stopped. Alward followed with a run of 35 yards, and Sherwin gained the necessary yard to score the last touch-down of the game; goal. Score, 54-0. Time...
...must, as you sit here, tremble with some subtle movement which tells you how they will all come out to gather into the great light beyond. The simplicity and unity of life must at this moment be felt beyond its complexity and diversity. You must see how by one flash of vision that only in goodness and unselfishness is there the final peace, and that peace, though we come to it by many roads, is one great city of God for all. It would be all theory and speculation if there were not God-if around all our confusion...
...interesting observation was made by assistants of the observatory during the electrical storm of last week. The assistants, who were at their homes in different parts of Cambridge, all heard the clap of thunder only two or three seconds after they saw the flash. As the difference in the rates at which sound and light travel is only five seconds a mile, it is proved that in such electrical storms the rate of sound is much accelerated...