Word: beams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House. Such parties, with dancing in the big East Room and refreshments in the State dining room, are always the No. 1 social events of the Christmas-New Year's week for Washington's young blades and merry maidens. The President is generally on hand to beam benignly upon the offspring of Administration bigwigs as they frisk around in tails and trains at the scene of their parents' highest social triumph. The only taboo at such White House parties is taking young ladies behind potted palms...
Back in Melbourne for Armistice Day, Gloucester dedicated its great new Shrine of Remembrance to more than 60,000 Australians killed in the War, watched a beam of sunlight slant through a slit in the wall at exactly 11 a. m. and search out the Biblical inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Day before he presented the prizes to the winners of the Centenary's biggest event, the London-to-Melbourne air races (TIME...
...year-old Czech whose figure is better than her voice. The Sophie was Elisabeth Schumann, longtime friend of Strauss, whose clear thread-like voice perfectly suited the demure fluttery young girl she was supposed to be. Basso Emanuel List made the Baron's comedy as broad as his beam, as obvious as the tuba which kept tabs...
...shiny new car droe up, bearing on its radiator cap an eye-attracting made chromium figure. The two Freshmen gazed at it a moment, then suddenly rushed down to the curb for a closer look. They peered at the statuette closely, ouriously, in apparent puzzlement. Them, with a quick beam of vadiance, "We'll ask Dr. Worcester...
...short wave station, equipped with a beam antenna which allows the broadcasting of radio waves in a straight line, has been constructed on the roof of the Physics Building by Harry R. Mimne, assistant professor of Physics. With a wavelength of five meters and an antenna which can be raised or deflected on a horizontal axis as well as turned from side to side, it is the only station of its kind in the country. It began operation two weeks ago. Its purpose is purely experimental, and at present, it is carrying on communication with the short wave stations...