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...works. When a revolver inounted on a table is fired, it severs a wire carrying a current, thus tripping a high-power 7500 volt condenser. As the bullet passes the open shutter of an ordinary Kodak, the tremendous electrical discharge causes a spark of approximately 900,000 candlepower to flash for 1-1,000,000 to 1-1,500,00 of a second. It is the inconceivable brevity of the flash and the enormous voltage released suddenly by the condenser that make possible such a high-speed picture. The entire process is done in a dark room...
Under selected public-school teachers who must be able to keep their poise when the children flash bits of unfamiliar information on them, the pupils are covering the regular school curriculum (minus reading, in which they need no instruction) in one-half the normal time. Thus they are free to spend the rest of the day investigating things the elementary public-school child seldom learns-French, poetry, music appreciation (via radio) and are doing independent research into such common aspects of civilization as lighting, transportation. Ninety per cent read newspapers daily, discourse on the Chinese war and the Roosevelt fiscal...
...faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned a fire hose on the Staters. In Eleventh Street, a State car stalled. One of its occupants began to throw ears of corn at the Oregonians. In a flash the Oregonians hauled him and his three companions out of the car and tossed them into the chilly millrace running by the campus. The Oregonians then started roaring through the town to do the same to the rest of the Staters...
Beginning November 1, whenever the ticker gets five minutes behind, latest floor prices of 16 major stocks will be given precedence on the ticker, one at a time, every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light...
...Adams eleven, which has fasted victory only once, has three outstanding gridsters in linemen Orman Brown and Paul Counihan and backfieldman Hubert "Flash" Hauck...