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...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
...Local Flash Burns should receive a cut from a certain night club the way he has been plugging their attractions. We wonder how so many in one class could be on the privilege list and the passing list too ... cbuld this be an aversion to the law of averages...
...Some of our men are expert wrestlers. In the occasional flash of grenades you could see them whirling the bodies of Germans over their heads and flinging them over the cliffs on to the rocks below...
...Japanese fear raids from Russia far more than repeated bombings by the U.S. ; the Doolittle raid awoke them to the fact that their cities could be bombed, but they believe that it was a flash in the pan, and that the U.S. has no bases from which to make sustained raids on Japan...
...traps record both intensity and duration of the flash. Electric-eye cameras reveal the number of separate pulses within a single stroke. Another device (the fulchronograph) clocks the quickest stroke and measures the amount of current. Its heart is an ever-turning aluminum wheel, with hundreds of small strips of magnet steel projecting from its rim. Lightning, when it strikes, creates an electrical field in coils which magnetize the strips. When the fins are removed in the laboratory their magnetism is measured, gives the strength of the stroke charted...