Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...high bridge, Roberts had time to glance aloft, see the sky blotted out by the crest of the wave before it broke over them, hurled men the entire length of the bridge. Small sounds in the Niagara thunder of the blow were the smashing of glass, furniture, superstructure, screams of passengers that the ship was going down, shrieks of the injured...
...different was the war experience of Chile. Her big exports were nitrates (essential for explosives) and copper, another important war necessity. After the first disruption of the War gave her a bad setback in the fall of 1914, she rode on the crest of the wave. Her Government, which depended largely on export duties, was flush. Her mines prospered. Her export balance, which amounted to $300,000,000 in 1913, jumped to over $1,500,000,000 in 1917. In the four years of the War her export balances reached...
...gives neutrals a choice between stimulation and stagnation. They can sit at home and count their losses while trade stagnates and costs of living mount. Or they can ride the crest of an economic wave, feeding and arming belligerents-making a gift offering of their wealth as a subsidy to war. They also suffer who do not fight...
Developed by Engineer Charles Frederick Wagner and his coworkers, the fulchronograph has been tried out on top of the University of Pittsburgh's skyscraper Cathedral of Learning. The record of one bolt passing through the arrester and dissected by the fulchronograph shows that it reached a crest of 21,000 amperes, then fell rapidly (in 100 microseconds) to 1,000 amperes, and from that point more slowly to zero. From start to finish the flash lasted one-sixtieth of a second. Engineer Wagner intends to acquire a complete gallery of different types of bolt, then redesign the arresting equipment...