Word: trough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wharf friends and kin of the Itacare's passengers braved the ugly weather to greet them. They watched the steamer strain closer, her prow dishing up small seas at every step. Suddenly a huge wave whammed her, sideslipped her into a deep sea-trough. Next instant she dived prow-first. Down she sank, spewing out 36 of her passengers & crew, drowning the rest. It was one of the worst sea disasters of recent years...
...coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there is a trough, along which Italian troops could move to intercept a Franco-British thrust into the Balkans...
...Clarence Alonzo Mills of the University of Cincinnati believes that sun spots cause economic depressions. He also believes that the biggest cause of disease in the U. S. is not poverty, urban life, or plain ignorance, but "cold polar waves traveling down the central trough of the continent." Last week in a book-full of statistics, weather maps and medical long shots, Dr. Mills published his latest ideas on the ill winds of North America...
Ohio. In his second week as Governor, John W. Bricker (successor to Democrat Martin Davey) had fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
...light reflected from its surface; with a soap film there are two reflections, one from the glass and one from the soap; by spacing the two surfaces properly it is possible to get the "crest" of a light wave bouncing off the glass to coincide with the "trough" of the wave bouncing off the soap so that the two cancel out. It appeared that a film dried as a varnish four millionths of an inch thick was just right to kill all reflections. Yet the film-on-glass combination is a highly efficient transmitter of light, for some...