Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventful sex life on two continents; if her address were No. 12 St. Luke's Place, three doors from Mayor James J. Walker; if her sister, Tucker Faithfull, were a secretive girl whose full lips and slim legs photographed well; and if the story broke during a heat wave and a scarcity of big news?then, as happened last fortnight, the august New York Times might consider it fit to print front-page for nearly two weeks. Cyrus H. K. Curtis' polite New York Evening Post might feature on its front page a three-column drawing of the girl...
Widener library most constantly feels the results of the wave of thefts. Even the installation of the turnstiles, although eminently successful in preventing the loss of textbooks and fiction, is of no avail against the skillfully planned campaign of the racketeer. But, on the other hand, this saving has been somewhat lessened by the losses sustained by the new House libraries during their first year of existence...
Grand Rapids, Mich. Sirs: I am not asking much- only that . . . you get one of the high power short wave stations such as the Westinghouse, General Electric, or the N. B. C. station at Boundbrook, N. J., to broadcast it. Long wave does not come through very well down here during the summer. . . . E. F. RICE...
...March of Time'' is presented over the Columbia Broadcasting System's two short-wave stations: W2NE, 49.02 meters, 6120 kilocycles, 500 watts; and W3NAU, 49.5 meters, 6060 kilocycles, 500 watts...
June weather. Soon his proteges would be leaving the Cantabrigian shores for Home. A wave of sadness engulfed the Vagabond. He could see the shining faces of his school children on vacation. The tender charm of the parental hearth. And he was saddened by the reflection that he had no home other than Harvard. True it was a fine place but there was no denying a lack of homely atmosphere resplendent in the surroundings. No milk-bottles on the back-porch, for instance...