Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout, simple wife, who might easily be mistaken for his mother. Some villagers will tell you that the hair of Alois Lang owes its luxuriant curliness to a permanent wave...
...optimistically stated that its purpose was to keep the price adjusted to day-to-day conditions in Europe. European consumers, long unwilling to pay 18? for copper, now grudgingly purchasing a minimum at 14?, feel this policy has been violated. In retaliation they have found a weapon-Africa-to wave at the U. S. copper powers...
...riots and bloodshed broke through the tense surface of Indian affairs last week to show the world what depths the non-violent campaign of St. Gandhi for Indian independence is stirring (TIME, Jan. 6). At Karachi, busy modern seaport on the Arabian Sea, a mob of 10,000, yelling, waving flags, throwing stones, swept down on the courthouse where six non-violent followers of Mahatma Gandhi were on trial for violating the British salt laws. British police rifles fired volleys point-blank into the crowd before the yelling, rushing wave of rioters dispersed. One native was killed, 33 were wounded...
...Exporters, Inc., to which belong all the important U. S. copper producers. Acting quite independently, but with a unanimity as perfect as if they had an agreement, these producers fix the price for domestic copper at an equivalent level. The 18? price was started April 15, 1929, after a wave of copper buying had sent the price to 24? for a short period. Even then consumers protested against the price, and with the decline in business last autumn it seemed obvious that a reduction would have to come. Buying became negligible, exports dwindled. Although world production has been declining...
...common explanation for all physical phenomena. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), father of the trend, stated that electricity and magnetism were nearly the same thing. Step by step interrelations have been discovered between electricity, magnetism, light, gravity. The general tendency is to reduce the universe to one of wave phenomena...