Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preference for BBC news is comparatively recent. Actually, I would say that it dates from the time the U.S. Government took over the control of short-wave news in November 1942. Meanwhile, British news broadcasting has improved and is hitting from the shoulder-the way we like to get it. Ours is being presented in a typical "American advertising agency" manner, full of optimism, sweetness and honey, seemingly addressed to morons...
...mailboxes with at least fifty witness to the fact that you got six letters and a package and it wasn't your birthday...and the armed foroes we are leaving behind us... Now don't let us get mellow. time enough for that, too, when celebrating our WAVE wedding on June 9 when Ensign Jean Colgate becomes Mrs. Lt. (ig) Charles Stafford, and at our, Anchors Aweigh Soiree the night before we shove off. So its Hedzup! and eyexs front toward ports now unknown...
...there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with flowers. You see her now; you look interested. You examine her antenna out of the corner of your eye and try to estimate her wave length. You try to contact her but with no success. At last she hears...
Approximately 125 officers from Communications School and 100 WAVE officers from Radcliffe enjoyed a picnic last Sunday afternoon in front of Briggs Hall. Music from recordings was audible throughout the grounds by means of a public address system, where three softball games with mixed teams were in progress, while at the other end of the grounds on a Badminton court, the Shuttlecock (bird) was taking a terrific beating from the rackets of both men and women. The tennis courts and the ping pong tables on the porch of Briggs Hall were used continuously...
...picnic was arranged jointly by Ensign Gartner of the WAVE school at Radcliffe and Lt. (jg) C. J. O'Neill, Welfare and Recreation officer of the Naval Training School at Harvard...