Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This prediction is in no way a cry of "sour Grapes" over last week's tidal wave. It is no disparagement of Princeton's undoubted power. If the Tigers play as they did in the Stadium, Yale cannot hope to prevail, but must trail by a two-touchdown margin at least. The chances are, however, in the light of past football history, that the Jungaleers reached their peak last Saturday and cannot maintain the breakneck pace they set in the Stadium...
...surprise to all parties concerned and to the world at large. A Conservative victory had early appeared certain, but that it should have been the most crushing of any that the party has ever won, and the greatest since Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman rode into office on the tidal wave of 1906 with a majority of 356 seemed impossible...
Riding on the Republican wave, which swept over Massachusetts yesterday, Lieutenant-Governor Alvan T. Fuller was far in advance of Mayor James M. Curley in the race for the governor ship of the state. The majority of Boston papers had conceded the election to Fuller early this morning, and Curley was so far behind that it seemed impossible for him to win. Although few returns had been heard from in Boston itself, the Republican lead was large enough to outweigh the majority that Curley is expected to receive in the city...
Radio Relays. Proposals for linking radio stations for simultaneous broadcasting of one program was considered. The technical method of so doing would be by wire, a system developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., or by short-wave radio relaying, a system which the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. is developing. A continuing committee to deal with the problems of relaying was recommended...
...propaganda value of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, both in the novel and film forms, has never been calculated. But its violent assertion of feeling was an extra puff of wind to raise even higher the wave of antagonism toward all things German. The mere depiction of French heroism, regardless to the end to which that dauntless effort was directed, was a rousing stimulus to European and American imagination and cooperation...