Word: wave
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Greatest tribute of all was Buenos Aires' farewell. The two Presidents drove down to the dock in a downpour of cold summer rain. Not only did 10,000 drenched soldiers present arms along the line of march, but many times as many soaking Argentineans turned out to wave farewell to this simpático Yankee. For once Franklin Roosevelt consented to ride in a limousine on a bad day. The car's roof was plastered with the sopping petals of flowers thrown from balconies. At the waterside President Roosevelt stopped to shake hands with the Argentine chauffeur...
...time, the radio balloon meteorograph becomes the best instrument for securing routine data of temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in the upper air. With an upper ceiling of 15 to 20 miles, the free balloon reaches much greater heights than weather airplanes. Its readings are transmitted automatically by short wave radio to a receiver on the ground, where the conditions are recorded on a revolving drum...
...high-altitude cold, and regular Spanish Army troops had advanced into the suburbs of Madrid over a terrain on which battling females of the Red Militia had abandoned vanity cases, high-heeled slippers and powder puffs. This proletarian resistance was brave but it was scarcely war. When a wave of advancing Moors were suddenly faced by Red machine guns which popped up out of a trench they simply flung themselves prostrate and waited calmly. The White artillery "bracketed" by dropping one shell behind and another in front of the Red trench, got the range and then blew Reds methodically...
...Soviet Ambassador to Madrid, Comrade Rosenberg, had meanwhile departed with his staff to open up again as the Soviet Embassy in Valencia. This week courageous diplomatic underlings at the U. S. and British Embassies used their short-wave radios to get out of the besieged capital the only uncensored and even approximately trustworthy dispatches. Time and again they corrected rumors that Madrid had fallen, and although what they sent could not be printed, editors were kept posted by the State Department in Washington and the British Foreign Office. Madrid's defenders appeared to have more airplanes and more ammunition...
Since the debate was not decided, conclusions were left up to an audience tuned into the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting System. The British Broadcasting Company transmitted Miall's speech by short wave, and the N. B. C. relayed it from New York...