Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know the earth is a large magnet; it is also covered with definite water and air currents; it probably is also radioactive in that radio waves follow definite surface patterns. Instead of the bird inheriting a flight practice from its ancestry, it probably inherits some sort of receiver mechanism which allows it to follow directions for long distances, and over large bodies of water. As a matter of fact the waves it follows may not be radio waves at all but they may be air currents or some other form of wave. All the bird needs is a receiver mechanism...
...Singapore, Malcolm MacDonald, Governor General of British South-East Asia, charged that the wave of terrorism was "part of a deliberate plan by Malayan Communists to ... capture by force the government of the country." He accused the Reds of attempting to rule "not by a majority of votes, but by a majority of guns...
Luckman had enviously watched the fantastic profits of Toni (home permanent wave) Co. When Gillette grabbed up Toni for $20 million, Luckman spent $5 million for another (Hedy Home Wave) that was less well known, planned to change all that by thumping advertising. In branching out last week into food products, Luckman had not gone afield: oleomargarine uses many of the same raw materials as soap (Lever's British parent company, Lever Bros. & Unilever, Ltd., and its Dutch twin already dominate the world margarine market...
...small foreign-language paper, Manhattan's Amerikai-Magyar Népszava, a Hungarian daily, was getting a lot of attention in international short-wave circles last week. A new editorial team had just taken over. And while a well-wishing message from President Truman was beamed to Central Europe by the Voice of America, the Moscow radio lambasted the new management as a bunch of rascals...
Billy didn't git; like any boy, he was thrilled at the prospect of seeing a real battle. When the Army of Northern Virginia hove in sight, "wave after wave, billow after billow," Billy was squatting on top of a fence...