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Word: wave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first wave of the largest enrollment in University history will make a 1,350-man-beachhead at Mem Hall today staring at 8:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Reaches 311-Year Peak | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

Loyal citizens held fast-they figured that they could still cool off and clean up in the Pacific Ocean. But in the middle of the heat and smog wave, the state Board of Health found that the local coastal waters were polluted with sewage. Promptly, if reluctantly, the board quarantined twelve miles of Los Angeles' best beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Heat & Pollution | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Like a nocturnal creature suddenly caught in the sun, Deferrari recoiled from the wave of questions that followed. When someone asked him what he ate, he replied with octogenarian bluntness: "I ask my bowels. If they need food that will go right through me, I eat fruit. If I'm feeling good, I cook myself a steak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: If I Had a Million | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...last become reality. Across the land, flyers were making rain by simply dropping 100-lb. loads of pulverized dry ice (solidified carbon dioxide) into cumulus clouds, thus precipitating ice crystals which turn into rain. This week, sweltering Chicago got an 8-to-18 degree break in a heat wave just when a plane hired by the Herald-American brought man-made rain. The Herald-American, of course, claimed the credit. For days previously, others had been doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Rain Makers | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...experts did not see eye to eye on the McCormick explanation. One agreed, grudgingly: sometimes the air does have belts of varying density. On very rare occasions, these may act as "wave guides" and conduct the radar's waves up from the surface of the water and over an obstacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fallible Radar | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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