Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool. But the alliance is unnatural. It is a faux ménage after all. The two people will never pull together. The Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl from a child's copybook...
Archbishop of Canterbury (Sun. 3 p. m. MBS) conducts a thanksgiving Bible Sunday commemorating "Four Hundred Years of the Open Bible"; by short wave from London...
...diffraction grating is a plate of glass, metal or metal-on-glass on which a series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl is a diffraction effect, caused by numerous tiny grooves in the smooth surface of the shell. The making of diffraction gratings...
...subscribers to think of protecting profits they had made in the bull market since 1932. Six months later, the Dow Theory gave a definite signal that the U. S. was in a bear market (ebb tide), had been in it since March. Thus, because it was succeeded by a wave with a lower crest and a lower trough, the March wave was proved to have been the high mark of the 1932-37 incoming tide. When September's definite signal was given, the Dow-Jones industrial average was at 165; speculators who then sold stocks have avoided a loss...
Vandalism had not been unknown in Kansas City but, with "Wally" Mahan's rise to power, it became a "wave." Its most frequent form was window-breaking with an occasional bombing for emphasis. Victims were owners of a wide variety of stores, from statuary shops to hamburger stands, who spurned the suggestions of North Side thugs masquerading as union organizers...