Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your superb summary of the inflation gallop under National Affairs, "Riding the Wave" (TIME, May 1) was marred by slight inaccuracies regarding "No. 1 Inflationist Thomas." Senator Elmer Thomas has been lampooned for three years by most of the Washington correspondents. It was not surprising that they largely underestimated his ability and quickly assumed that "the Squire took him into camp" when Thomas walked out of the Oval room of the White House with his revised Senate bill. Before the Senate silverites had cast an amazing total of 33 ayes for inflation of the coinage of silver, Senator Thomas...
After studying the hiss for a year, Researcher Jansky determined that it was the effect of a 14.6-metre wave at a frequency of about 20 million cycles a second. If. like thunderstorms and street cars, the source of the static is terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays...
...blind as a bat." Judge Lowell's decision did not actually free George Crawford because Massachusetts continued to hold the prisoner on $25,000 bail pending an appeal to a special session of the U. S. Circuit Court later this month. But it did send wave on wave of indignation rolling through Middleburg, across Virginia and over the entire South. George Crawford became more than a "runaway nigger," for in him the South saw symbolized its right to administer criminal justice in its own way. The South remembers the fugitive slave law whereby a Negro might murder...
...would have had a profit of $1,125,000 by exercising his option.¶ In Detroit, result of liquidation of two closed banks, clerks day by day thumbed alphabetically through lists of depositors sending out checks for 30% of the deposits tied up since Feb. 11 bringing a cumulative wave of belated Easter buying to stores (which had to take on extra employes) until a total of $131,000,000 had again been put in circulation. ¶ In Manhattan, result of hard times which have come upon insurance companies (TIME, April 17). National Surety Co., big writer of surety bonds...
Authoress Scott likes a big canvas. In Migrations and The Wave, she filled a panoramic picture of the Civil War with hundreds of figures, a meticulously colorful background. A Calendar of Sin made No. 3 of her U. S. historical series. Eva Gay is not quite so big (only 799 pages), but its figures are few, its background so subdued that attention is glaringly focused on the three main characters. Many a wearied reader will not be attentive to the bitter...