Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical Duke experiment involves the use of "ESP" cards. Now readily available at book-stores, these cards display five characteristic symbols: "square," "circle," "star," "plus," and "wave." A "pack" consists of 25 cards...
...last week was naturally somewhat like that of a cinema producer whose top-price star creates public scandal: a desire to minimize it as far as possible. Fifth day of the storm an emergency hookup was arranged so that Mayor Frank L. Shaw could send a message by short wave to San Francisco where it was rebroadcast to the alarmed nation over the Columbia network. Said Mayor Shaw: "We have not suffered a major disaster in any sense of the word . . . regret . . . unfounded reports to the contrary. . . . The sun is shining over Southern California today and . . . Los Angeles is still...
...Crisis: Something had to be done to stave off trouble after the expiration on March 1 of some 7,000 labor contracts, affecting workers in every part of France. Ugly signs of labor unrest have been appearing for several months, and last week there were grounds to fear another wave of sit-down strikes and stand-up riots such as burst forth under Socialist Premier Léon Blum (TIME, June 15, 1936), today Vice-Premier...
...firm will not be remembered so much as what their failure proves. First to be noticed is the relative steadiness of the market, since under the S.E.C. short selling in a declining market is impossible. Formerly, bankruptcy of such a large house would have caused a speculative wave of selling. Second, Mr. Whitney marks a milestone in the rapidly disappearing element of "old guardism," which is seeing the eradication of its laissez-faire doctrine. With the triumph of governmental control comes the end of an era in which historians will include both the prosperity of the twenties and the barrenness...
Copernicus will be the subject of the regular University Tuesday evening radio broadcast tonight over the short wave station WIXAL at 8 o'clock...