Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's forthcoming World's Fair (seep. 35). Excerpts: "My personal investigation in Europe has conclusively proved to me that there'll be no war. Why, the uncle of the King of Egypt told me today that there positively will be no war. ... A wave of enthusiasm for the World's Fair is sweeping Europe. That's what Europe is thinking of now-not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group of Radio City Music Hall artisans who, calling themselves "The Grover Boys," decked themselves...
...august National Academy of Sciences in Washington. The physicist who furnished it was Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For "clocks" he used (at Einstein's suggestion, made in 1907) glowing particles of hydrogen gas. In such particles the frequency of energy oscillations determines the wave length of the emitted light, just as the oscillation frequency of a radio transmitter determines the length of the radio waves. When his particles were speeded up to velocities around 1,000 miles per second, Dr. Ives observed a change in wavelength which indicated that the fast-moving atomic clocks were...
...Wave after wave of Chinese troops bravely assaulted the heavy walls of Yihsien from three sides, and wave after wave broke, receded under withering Japanese machine-gun fire. The defenders' ammunition soon began to run low. Japanese planes then started dropping ammunition and food into Yihsien. With Chinese batteries blazing away this was ticklish work. Much of what the Japanese dropped fell outside the walls, helped the Chinese attackers...
...completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions. Sample: chided by Host Ripley for bringing Manhattan a heat wave, Mayor Stenvig replied: "Why, it's hotter than Hell in New York...
...first experimental confirmation was the bending of starlight in the gravitational field of the sun, observed during a solar eclipse in 1919. Others are the "stretching" (increased wave length) of light from heavy stars, the conversion of mass into energy in the laboratory, the recoil of a body which emits light. Relativity also explains eccentricities in Mercury's orbit, which had remained a mystery under Newtonian mechanics. Atom-smashers who build cyclotrons (machines in which atomic projectiles are whirled by electric and magnetic fields) take into careful consideration the Relativistic increase in mass of fast particles. In brief, Relativity...