Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While mechanics and aviators tuned the planes, the expedition's radio operator continued exchanging messages with the U. S. on his short-wave set (16 to 40 metres). In Illinois, newspaper reporters had the question flashed...
...possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned to savor the futility of hope, doubtless he was not surprised when Lord Waring's White Heather slipped past his lee on the crest of a feathering wave and beat him across the line. Grimly he twisted his barnacle, fixed upon his features his professionally smile, repeated mechanically: "I will try again...
...anti-crime wave began to rise...
MacMillan's radio communication with the U. S. continued uninterrupted, the short-wave (40-metre) set being used. In addition to code reports, by MacMillan and Flight-Commander Richard E. Byrd, to the National Geographic Society and the Navy Department, U. S. operators even picked up, indistinctly, a musical program by the Peary's rough and ready orchestra, a speech by MacMillan, weird chants that the Bowdoin's operator explained were Eskimos singing...
...were also employed in driving the Riffians from their entrenchments. At the western end of the Wergha Valley, the rebels were driven back into the Spanish zone where, in conjunction with the French, Spanish troops were preparing to deal with them. After these engagements, undertaken in an appalling heat wave, the war became less hectic. A calm that precedes a storm settled on the front...