Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Georgette Cohan, 25, daughter of famed actor-producer George M. Cohan, widow of J. William Souther, broker; to William Hamilton Rowse, perfumer; at Manhattan. When she married Mr. Souther in 1921, she telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle Boy. Wave your flag." Importer Rowse is a naturalized American (onetime Englishman...
Radio "Separator." In Berwyn, Chicago suburb, radio engineers crowded around L. William Skala, young graduate of the University of Prague, to observe his demonstration of a device for separating two radio messages sent simultaneously by different transmitters set at the same frequency. A wave-metre showed that the transmitters were on identical wave lengths. The "beat" note or interference whistle was heard in the receiver before the test. Then Skala attached one of his devices to each transmitter and one to the receiver. With a switch at the receiving end he was able to "cut out" either transmitter at will...
...Significance: the radio-wave spectrum being definitely limited, many stations are now forced to use the same wavelengths, going on the air at different hours by agreement. There was a hopeful stir when John Hays Hammond Jr. proved the possibility of sending many messages on a single "carrier" wave upon which modulations were impressed (TIME, Oct. 26). Skala's invention promises to simplify air-traffic even further, to solve the selectivity problem of listeners-in, to open the field of wireless telephony as a substitute for common wire service...
...Kleig lights are lurking just around the corner. The sky has an odd opaque quality, unknown to this climate. The shallow waters shimmer with reflections from the clean sands below, and the proas of the natives sweep through the surf, like birds skimming the clouds. The cocoanut trees wave to and from against a high sky-line. No tricks, no artifice, no sham appears in "Moana", but only the peaceful glory of the South Seas...
Furthermore, I once saved a lady's life. She, like Moll Seagrim, was in a battle-royal with another lady. It was all because one had told the other that her "wave" was poor. Oaths flew, nails dug--it was most abusing. I bowed to one; I bowed to both. I called a cop. Gentlemen, shall we join the ladies...