Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornwall, Dr. Deacon has an instrument that continuously measures the weight of water above it. As the waves sweep in from the North Atlantic, it records them all-big & little-on a strip of paper. Dr. Deacon studies the strip at his leisure. The ordinary visible waves do not interest him much. What he is looking for are long slow "swells," their crests 30 seconds apart, that cannot be detected except with the wave recorder...
...Equally unfortunate," the composer-conductor said, "are the results of a recent decision of the American Federation of Musicians which enables broadcasters to air the same program simultaneously over long wave and frequency modulation transmitters...
...Right Wave Length. Clifford presents a serene front to the world and is outwardly patient and smiling at all times. But he is a serious man who gets to the White House early-a habit much admired by early-rising Mr. Truman-and stays late. One of the chief reasons for Clifford's rise has been his methodical practice of meticulously copying down the thoughts of the various men around the President, carefully sorting them out and then presenting them in a manner which suits Harry Truman to a T. As Mrs. Clifford proudly expresses it: "Clark...
...main political effect was another wave of indignation in Britain. Those Americans who had still hoped that the British could be persuaded to police the partition could hope no longer. The British would be out by May 15, and could hardly wait for the day to come. The U.S., judging from Austin's speech, had no idea of what to do next with the bloody mess it had stirred...
Conductor Reiner, 59, a grown-up wonder boy who conducted his first orchestra at twelve, would have little trouble finding some other podium to wave from. He is a first-rate conductor of Mozart and Strauss operas-and the Metropolitan Opera badly needs additional conductors (one recently died, two others have been ill on & off). Besides, there is the increasingly attractive guest conductors' circuit, with few of the cares and all the pleasures of a regular berth. At week's end, the Minneapolis Symphony snapped him up for eight concerts in October. The only real loser was Pittsburgh...