Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small tide must take place in the earth's crust as the moon revolves about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct interpretation is that of a shift in the earth's instantaneous axis of rotation. As a last resort...
There aren't a wave for miles an' miles...
Last week the "jiggle" was a boiling, foaming wake wave, and from the Enterprise's short, rakishly tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
Brattle Street is busy today, and the elms that covered what was once the road to the west bordered by country houses now wave over whirring traffic. The house at the head of Longfellow Park peeps from behind its screen of shrubbery as it did seventy years ago, and those who pass the Craigie House turn and look, or do not turn and pass, knowing vaguely that a poet once lived there...
Gang War.* No gangster taking part in the crime-wave of the cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with...