Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast, empty square in nice-&-tidy Hitlerish ranks and provide a scene of disciplined might for the newsreels. The Milanese did better. They jammed into the square, clambered onto every pedestal, statue and ledge in the vicinity. The burly Duce, squinting against the refulgent sun, was obliged to wave his arms to get his flock to keep quiet and hear him roar through loudspeakers, which worked imperfectly, a promise to Laborers...
Harvard undergraduates will shortly have their own radio station, equipped with microphone, wireless, and short-wave facilities...
Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Oct. 9--Stupified by the assassination of King Alexander I, and fearing a Croatian uprising, Jugoslavia was swept tonight by a wave of apprehension reflected in a frantic cabinet meeting at the palace...
With a rush and a wave of the hand the "High-Hatted Tragedian" dashed to his dressing room to rest up before the next...
...blue and grey had gone to school. It tumbled down 77 primary schools in Osaka Prefecture, crushing 310 school children to death. It tugged down small skyscrapers. It swept away wood-&-paper houses like rubbish. An hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru...