Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Within the compound of China's Ministry of Information several short-wave radios are tuned in, day & night to each of the world capitals. Before each radio sits an alert operator, ready at a moment's notice to translate a Russian, German, British or French flash and hurry it to the attention of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. One day last week the English-speaking operator was shocked into attention by a BBC commentator. The operator took some notes, then sent a courier to the Gissimo's compound. The report...
Equally informal was BBC's flash to the children on the fate of the French Fleet. Said the announcer: "It's not a thing about which one likes to say very much. The French Fleet had to be taken under our control to prevent it falling into German hands or else we had to trust Hitler's word that it wouldn't be used against us-and who could do that nowadays...
...sixth, as State after State began rolling over to him, photographers got their cameras ready, flash bulbs set. Illinois shifted heavily, Michigan came, Missouri, Oklahoma, Virginia - it was all over. He had been nominated for President of the U. S. Mr. Willkie, formerly of Elwood, Ind. rose; someone pushed him toward a microphone in an adjoining room, and he said in a subdued voice: "I'm overwhelmed. I'm deeply grateful. . . . Now I want to go and join my family...
...Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, went to the oldest and third oldest universities in the U. S. to get honorary degrees. Harvard and Yale greeted him affectionately. Sandburg, wearing a gown but no cap, his white mane and rugged face gleaming in the sun, gave their commencements a flash of homely Americanism, a flash just bright enough to illumine the shadow of European affairs that all but blacked out their gay, traditional ceremonies...
...fast, non-smudge printing, various means have been devised to make ink dry almost instantly when it hits the paper-absorption, evaporation, oxidation, polymerization (molecular clustering). In the "flash-dry" process, the newly printed paper passes between jets of flame and the liquid part of the ink ignites with a flash, leaving a dry residue. The June Technology Review (M. I. T.) describes a new "frozen" ink for porous papers like newsprint. The ink is solid at room temperature. It is fed like lumps of coal into the press, which heats it to fluidity, at 200° F. On reaching...