Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engulfing, like a tidal wave...
...encouraging number of cities, however, that report decreases in 1924. For the most part, the 1924 figures fall short of the level of 1916-18, and in some cases the difference is striking . . . There is some reason to think that the period 1916-18 represents the crest of a wave of intemperance as a cause of dependency, and if this is true the figures for 1924 appear more favorable than they really...
Transportation. Liberals will wave sheets of figures landwards to prove that the partially government-owned railroads are solvent and should be let alone; seawards to prove that the North Atlantic Steamship combine's rates are too high. Conservatives will wave other figures to prove that the Government railways are worse than broke and should be turned over to private operators; will make only a few passes at the shipping question in the interest of large Conservative shipowners...
...Demonstration of the feasibility and advisability of taking radio equipment into the North, and of the efficiency of short-wave sets in overcoming the belt of static that affects long-wave communication from within the Arctic Circle...
From crest to crest the "longest" wave was set at 300 yards. (Let golfers picture a drive and a pitch; tennis players, 12 courts laid end-to-end; city-dwellers, 3 1/2 blocks). The time it took one wave to replace another was approximated at 20 seconds. "Longest" waves thus travel 15 yards per second, 40 miles per hour...