Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suprise when the audience of Boston's most straight-laced playhouse, the playhouse where a drunken Harvard football team had been refused admittance voiced its displeasure at the undue length of this overture by stamping its feet and clapping its hands long before the conductor had given the final wave of his baton. No steps were taken by the Tremont officials to evict the originators of this original stunt, nor did the burly arm of the law interpose to silence the whistles and catcalls that encouraged Mr. Fairbanks to greater amatory efforts...
...Since the Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect...
...Denmark, diggers in a Slesvig bog, struck whale bones six feet down, unearthed the skeleton of a prehistoric species of leviathan which experts suggested might have been swept to his grave, 24 miles inland, by a tidal wave...
...when "universal rays" were reported by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Millikan, at a session of the American Geophysical Union, again described how he had detected, by observing their effect upon delicate instruments scabbarded against other influences, rays with a wave length one ten-millionth that of light rays; rays which can penetrate six feet of lead and which impinge upon the earth from the surrounding universe in all directions (TIME...
...country is mad over these musical shows, but this state of theatrical affairs will not last very long. As is the case after every emotional wave, the public turns its thoughts to more sedate things, to things which are conservative...