Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart that, when he stayed out in the country, the first train that he could catch in the morning did not get him to his office until 8:20. Such was his model life. Aside from his middle-class English hatred of publicity, which led him sometimes to wave a gold-headed cane at photographers, he was not an ominous figure. Some industrial opponents hated him, but as a successful manager of utilities he had the admiration of most businessmen. All that was undone by his bad management as a corporate manipulator which cost investors some $750,000,000. After...
News from Chicago indicates a rebirth of that soft and mealy-mouthed generosity which characterizes the American attitude toward crime. Perhaps the brevity of American indignation, the sole reason for every crime wave, results from a sympathetic feeling for the underdog, even after the public has been severely bitten by it, or perhaps this indifference stems from mere lack of intestinal fortitude...
...York, Depression and the hunt for new revenue were the driving power behind the wave of liberality which has caused 13 other States to legalize horse-race betting in the last two years. Some of the results...
Before they could reach that conclusion even with the powerful wave mathematics developed by Germany's Erwin Schrodinger, Drs. George Braxton Pegram, John R. Dunning and Isidor Isaac Rabi had to lead their particles like circus animals through a complex series of hoops & hurdles. Beryllium powder was placed in a glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber...
...from the high of the previous week. When President Roosevelt took office nearly 14 months ago, wheat was selling in Chicago at 47? per bu. Since then the AAA has distributed $65,000,000 in subsidies to wheat growers to reduce production. Yet when last week's selling wave was over, wheat stood at 76? per bu. and the present crop carryover promised a surplus of 265,000,000 bu. on July...