Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farewell. Flying a small pursuit plane at Fort Stotsenburg, P. I., Lieut. Marvin M. Burnside chased after a great twin-motored bomber which had just taken off, to wave "goodbye" to its pilot, his close friend Lieut. Marion Huggins. He had nearly overtaken the bomber when suddenly the backwash of its propellers hit the little plane, flung it about like a leaf, dashed it to the ground. Unaware of the occurrence, Lieut. Huggins flew on to Nichols Field, Manila, there learned that his friend was dead...
...entry list was amazingly big - 228 - but the heat helped cut it to 189 actual starters on the 26-mi. run. They jogged along the road from Hopkinton to Wellesley - the halfway mark - and at Wellesley Square the college girls came out to wave to them and runners who still felt spry waved back. But the last half of the course was the real test...
...play is a melodrama. It is also the first Manhattan presentation of a play by French Author Henry Bernstein (The Thief) and the third appearance of the season for English Actor Basil Rathbone. With two strikes against him for a pair of wild, unsuccessful swings he took in Heat Wave and A Kiss of Importance, Mr. Rathbone seems pretty sure of a base hit with Melo...
...name of Maj.-General George Owen Squier, retired chief signal officer of the U. S. Army, stood out from the list of exhibitors. In his baggage of accomplishments are these devices depending upon abstruse physics: the sine wave systems of telegraphy, multiplex telegraphy and telephony, tree telegraphy and telephony, broadcasting over power and telephone lines by radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer...
...atoms of various elements. When an X-ray strikes an atom, the X-ray presumably hits and bounces off the orbital electrons, which are moving so fast that they give the effect of an impervious surface. The impact of the electrons alters the length of the X-ray wave. The difference between the original and altered wave is the measure of an orbital electron's speed. The nicety of the du Mond-Kirkpatrick experiment lay in their photographing thq rebounding X-rays in such fashion that the wavelength change could be exactly measured. The value of their work...