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Anyone, he claims, "can memorize a string of numbers. Except I do it quicker. I do it in a flash. Everything is in a flash with me. When I demonstrated for Einstein he said a second is for me what an hour is for someone else. He said the second stretches in my mind and is a long time in which I can work. There is nothing different about my mind, except for numbers. For numbers I am a genius...
Immediately windows are closed with a bang and lights flash on all over barracks. The plebes (first year men) have started to dream. Gradually more lights wink on over the snow covered area until at three minutes of six every light in barracks is on. It requires a piehe ten minutes to dress, while an upperclassman can do it in two minutes...
...expected to get as Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland and without a bloodstain showing, Privy Councilor Chen strolled...
...flash the meaning followed, Freedom of the Seas! Grotius, writing twenty-seven years before the founding of Harvard College, established the ideas of the liberty of the sea, and the impossibility of its monopoly by any one-nation, a doctrine of far-reaching consequences. And being in a thoughtful mood, the Vagabond this morning will visit Harvard 6 at 11 o'clock, to hear Professor George Grafton Wilson give his interpretation of the significance of Grotius in the development of human history...
...Gorgulov lose his head. She told how Gorgulov, his hands and feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...