Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter L. Harbury 3G died yesterday of an electric shock received while he was preparing an experiment in wave propagation in the troposphere at the Vanserg Laboratory on Divinity Place...
...Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
...trial was probably the biggest prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan since reconstruction days. In Birmingham, Ala., 18 men had been indicted for the brutal wave of floggings, cross-burnings and intimidation that swept Alabama's hill country last summer...
...effect is less movingly simple. For one thing, formal primitive speech often sounds stilted when spoken. But on the stage, sometimes a gesture is better than any speech; sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars a wave of honest feeling brings a backwash of sentimentality; too often the show feels that the more it dots its i's, the more the audience will dab at theirs...
...Deluge. With the opening gong, the selling wave began. By noon the tickers were so far behind sales that nobody had a way of finding out what actual prices were. Auburn Auto tumbled another 70 points to 190; U.S. Steel broke to 193⅛, down 68 points from its recent high...