Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Fun. In Kansas City, Mrs. Betty West and Mrs. Marian Braidwood went shopping, reported that they saw successively pour out of a department store: 1) a wave of women, 2) a rat, 3) a woman who wailed ". . . he's a pet, he's just having fun," and crammed the rat back into her pocketbook...
...midweek Secretary Hull trudged firmly up the Capitol steps to try to answer some questions for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gesturing constantly with a sidearm wave of his right hand and forearm, the old man talked for two hours without glancing at a note. But the generalities of his review added little to the Senators' information. His main theme: in wartime the State Department's primary task is to help win the earliest possible victory with the fewest possible losses. Nearly all questions should be held for the peace table...
Will the U.S. experience a great crime wave after the war? The head FBIman in New York thinks it will. Said E. E. Conroy to a convention of National Armored Car Operators in Manhattan: The crimes will come from: 1) the present increase of juvenile delinquency; 2) the drafting of young policemen; 3) the return of ten million veterans "trained to kill," with Commando-men presenting a special menace because they are trained to kill "skillfully and soundlessly." To help get ready, announced Agent Conroy, the FBI will double enrollment at its Police Academy in Washington this summer...
...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...
...curvature, instead of sailing into space, because it bounces along a reflecting roof of electrically charged particles, called the Kennelly -Heaviside layer, which blankets the earth's outer atmosphere. Physicists have measured the height of this layer, varying from 60 to 1,200 mi., by bouncing radio waves off it and catching their echo on a receiver. The first hint of radio's possible usefulness as a ground-level detector came when experimenters noticed that a ship moving between a transmitter and receiver interfered with radio waves. The basic radar instrument had three main elements: 1) a short...