Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the "Bull of San Luis Potosí" was still at large. Capture of Cedillistas was announced daily, but Federal airplanes and troops combed the rugged Huasteca hills in vain for the Chief himself. At week's end, Strongman Cedillo was so bold that by short-wave radio from his hideout he gave an interview to the U. S. He claimed his revolt was spreading...
...Derby (Wed. 9:50 a. m. NBC-Blue and MBS), world's best-known horse race, from Epsom Downs by short wave...
...Prime example of the dogmatic spirit is "the relativistic theories of Einstein, which are based on an arbitrary definition of space and time coordinates. . . ." Other examples are theories of wave mechanics in which the electron is "arbitrarily smeared in a large spatial region around the atom" or made to "dance round the atom in an irregular manner...
...radio sets from one end of the country to the other began to squeak & squawk with interference. Secretary Herbert Hoover called a conference of all radio interests, and a definite broadcasting band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their...
...Blue). Second act by short wave from Florence Music Festival with Gina Cigna and Beniamino Gigli...