Word: gird
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human eye were tuned to longer wave lengths of radiation, it would be able to see radio waves. The ethereal wiggles that gird the globe with speech and music are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed...
Upon Scot MacDonald the impending wreckage of his disarmament hopes threw a strain as severe as that which he, a life-long champion of free trade, faced when his National Government decided to gird up the Empire's loins with a high tariff (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). That crisis was got over by a spell of "eye strain" which enabled Ramsay MacDonald to absent himself from London during most of the time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister...
...Moscow, a big construction is going up. There are the usual difficulties: living quarters are overcrowded, uncomfortable, dirty; food is scanty and not too good; the water supply is whimsical. But when news comes that a rival construction at Kharkov has broken the record for concrete pouring, shock-brigaders gird up their dirty loins, beg permission to have a try at the record themselves. Ishchenko's brigade gets the honor. It is partly like a sporting event, more like a battle. There are two deserters; one brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having...
...disappeared last night while in process of prognosticating stop believe him kidnapped in connection with Lampoon-H.A.A. feud stop all predictions but Harvard-Army encounter found on desk of Reverend Sire stop In Casey returns shall wire you stop all I can say now is that Army will gird on its sword and Buckler stop it should be a Burlingame stop following are scores left by honored father: Brown 13 Syracuse 0 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 6 Yale 7 Georgia 6 Columbia 13 Navy 7 Fordham 7 N.Y.U. 7 Michigan State 23 Carnegie Tech 12 Oregon 7 Oregon State...
Into busy TIME office last week stamped baldpated, hooknosed, bewhiskered Ghost Peter. No wearer of rings, there hung from his gird loins the Fisherman's Keys. Crashing through...