Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members sought out Inventor Baird in Leeds to see him manipulate his latest tele-visors, which are now so refined that they can "see things at night." Using infra-red rays, on the long-wave edge of the spectrum of visible light, and an infra-red-sensitive cell of which Inventor Baird alone knows the secret, the Baird "noc-tovisor" transmits by wire or radio an image of a person sitting in a pitch-dark room. Some of Inventor Baird's admirers went to London...
...struck the willow ball. It rose like a golf ball for a midiron over the heads of the players, bounced, bounded through the posts over 100 yards away. Webb scored, Hitchcock scored, Milburn (against whose play at back the British at tack had foamed and fallen like a wave) scored twice; Hitchcock scored, Webb scored twice; Roark scored a second goal for Britain. Webb scored; Pert scored the last stategoal for Britain. Total: U.S. 13, Great Britain...
Handwriting. Newspapers last week printed the last words of Paul Redfern, lost flyer to Brazil. In scratchy manuscript, dropped to the deck of the steamer Christian Krogh, the facsimile read: "Point ship to nearest land, wave flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles. Thanks, Redfern...
Married. Mary Cohan, 18, daughter of George M. Cohan, patriot; to one Neil Litt, orchestra leader, following an elopement; at Elkton, Md. Georgette Cohan, eldest daughter of Mr. Cohan eloped in 1921 with one J. William Souther; telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle boy. Wave your flag." Mr. Souther died in 1925 and she later married and divorced one William Hamilton Rowse. Mr. Cohan was divorced from his first wife, Actress Ethel 'Levey, who afterwards married Claude Graham White, famed British aviator...
Scientists pondered the phenomenon. Was it an earthquake? Seis- mographs sensitized to the slightest disturbance for thousands of miles had recorded nothing. A tidal wave? No wall of water had been visible on the surface. Many hours later a northward moving hurricane did bang that part of the Atlantic into a colossal lather, but what manner of hurricane forerunner would travel invisibly beneath the surface? A convulsive bottom current? A ponderous flotilla of mad leviathans? A freak pelagic tide-rip seething in the depths as masses of the Atlantic changed position...