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...different from the class "grind," who labors long and alone. Different too from the versatile class organizers and politicians, who sandwich fairly able academic work into the tiny crevices left between running their newspapers and student government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would...
...small blue and gold airplane postured above them in a sunbeam. It climbed against a curtain of cloud, glided in minute undulations as if it ran on tiptoes, then pirouetted sharply with a flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...
...Manhattan in the kitchen of a restaurant, one Ho Kee, a cook, was mixing curry. A slight noise made him glance behind him; a face like a soiled lemon wafer leered at him from the shadow of a barrel; a roaring flash filled the kitchen. The shot that killed him scorched his apron; he was buried with a .38 calibre revolver in his right hand that he might be equipped to revenge his murder in the next world...
...streets. In the offing, advancing threateningly, was the Stahlhelm, Monarchist men. The leader of the Republican Reichsbanner fired shots into the air with the object of dispersing the Monarchist Stahlhelm. Unable to stop the swarms of glaring Monarchists, he fired into the crowd. A Stahlhelmer fell dead. In a flash, both organizations were locked in painful, noisy, bitter conflict. Bashed-in noses, black eyes, shredded ears, large blue bruises were the wounds inflicted. The police, arriving speedily on the scene, added a number of cracked skulls to the casualty list. Quiet was eventually restored. The Republican Reichs banner leader gave...
Radio stations, strung around the world so as to form a closed circuit of communication, would flash time signals to one another. From the difference between the times flashed by stations in Heligoland and Hawaii, and the times simultaneously recorded in stations at Halifax and Seattle, the degrees of longitude between any two stations could nf be very accurately computed. Any slide of this continent would readily appear from further longitudinal determinations made 5, 10, 15 years afterward...