Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there seemed to be some color in that familiar word as pronounced last week by William Dubilier, President of the Dubilier Condenser & Radio Corporation of New York. He contended that the perfection of short-wave radio devices, by definition consumptive of less power and hence of less capital, would soon render "the million-dollar high-power radio-broadcasting stations obsolete." Sailing for Europe, Manufacturer Dubilier took with him low-power radio equipment which he estimated as requiring 1/4,000 the power of such long-wave stations as KDKA (Pittsburgh), WJZ (New York), KPO (San Francisco), CFCA (Toronto...
...precedent and seeming proof, Manufacturer Dubilier had the reported performance of short-wave sets taken into the Far North by Explorer Donald B. MacMillan (TIME, July 6 et seq.), which their operators last week declared would (perhaps) reach every properly equipped station in the entire world...
...terrific heat wave greatly interfered last week with the prosecution of the war in Morocco (TIME, May 11, et seq.). Minor engagements were reported in the Spanish sector in the south, but nothing decisive was effected by any engagement. In general, the Riffians continued to dominate Fez* and Taza behind the Wergha River and a new offensive against the former was developing...
...three planes had previously been equipped with Zenith short wave radio sets-the product of a company reported to be headed by E. F. MacDonald, second in command to MacMillan. The Navy type is a long wave set, believed to operate better than the short wave type when a plane is in flight. It is also better for radio compass work...
Five of the capsized fisherman had drowned before the swimmers reached them, but it was no trick at all for Kahanamoku and his followers to buoy up 13 survivors, drag them across their boards, catch a wave and rush their gasping passengers ashore in relays. The exhibition bore out, surprisingly soon, a recent pronouncement of the U. S. President (TIME, June 1, THE PRESIDENCY), that swimming "in itself constitutes a useful accomplishment...