Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock this evening listeners in on the radio may hear a number of selections broadcast by the Harvardians from the Hotel Statler. The concert will be one the W B Z A wave length...
...real wonder is the height to which American enthusiasm can toss a man from the very tip and foam of its intermost wave and, likewise, the abysmal depth of the trough into which it can forthwith plunge him. There have been newly-elected presidents: and there have been x-presidents. There are heros of the hour and there are men, and women too, who have had their famous moments. Fickle and feverish attention is the vice of a child. There is much material for the sociologist in the childishness of the American public. The tabloids have exploited it professionally. Walter...
...Victoria Station, within eight minutes' brisk walk of Buckingham Palace, there gathered last week several hundred British Laborites, led by the Right Honorable Arthur Henderson, to cheer and wave good-by to the Soviet Russian Chargé d'Affaires, A. P. Rosengolz, now banished with his staff from Britain by decree of the Baldwin Cabinet (TIME, June 6) backed by a Conservative majority in the House of Commons...
...exhort with the Senior suddenly become Freshman again. Too often these sermons from high finance, high politics, or high poetics, are stodgy, or sentimental, or pluto-patriotic, or even cheap pamphleteering. Mr. McAdoo, for instance, has taken advantage of his position as commencement orator to wave the black flag of the Anti-Saloon League and then attempt to pull a Houdini on his audience by telling them it is identical with the American flag. Such political truckstering is hardly a pleasant foretaste for the graduating Senior...
...object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...