Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obviously no accident that the end of a century of free migration from Europe should have been followed immediately by a wave of revolutionary imperialism in the very region of Europe where the pressure of surplus population is the greatest and the post-war impoverishment the most acute. It is no accident, surely, that with the non-European world closed to European migration and in large part to European trade, there should have followed so quickly a fierce movement toward empire and a ruthless spoliation of the more defenseless minorities...
Igor Stravinsky (Fri. 4:10 p. m. CBS) directs the Turin Orchestra in his own Apollon Musagète, Jeu de Cartes by short wave from Turin...
...fortnight ago, Dr. Svedberg reported experiments on molecules of hemocyanin (molecular weight, 6,740,000 units), a blue pigment from the blood of mollusks. He and his co-workers at the University of Upsala bombarded the hemocyanin particles with quanta of energy in the form of ultraviolet light. Certain wave lengths of the bombarding radiation split the blood pigment molecules into halves. This was like splitting inorganic atoms in a high-voltage atom-smasher...
Frank Buchman (Sun. II a. m. MBS). Oxford Group's founder and leader speaks by short wave from London on "Moral Rearmament...
...faith in the fundamental goodness of human nature is destroyed by the bestial persecutions of the Nazi regime, then it is restored again by the spontaneous upsurge of sympathy for the persecuted in other parts of the world. Harvard has been a part of this humanitarian wave, and here the sympathy seeks to express itself not only in protests but in active efforts to alleviate the conditions of the sufferers...