Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star. A smart, hard-working sophomore at the University of Chicago (where Leopold and Loeb were unusually bright scholastic lights), he was charged with 24 burglaries, four assaults with intent to murder, and one assault and robbery. He was also suspected of having shot and stabbed to death ex-WAVE Frances Brown; of having strangled and dissected six-year-old Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled by a "truth serum...
...inevitable happened this week. Canada's strike wave finally hit steel, cornerstone of Canada's industrial economy...
...what happened after World War I. Wrote he: "... I cheer up too when I reflect that it's all happened before . . . dear food, scarce food, few clothes, no beer, high taxes, too many forms to fill up, not enough homes to live in, Germany, a crime wave, rising cost of living, falling output of goods, riots in India and Egypt. Everyone said: 'The country's going to the dogs.' Why, this is almost where we came in. One begins to feel better already. Nothing so comforting as to know that other folks have...
Atom Bomb Test (Wed. 5:30 p.m. -tentative - all networks). The second test at Bikini, with eyewitness accounts, short wave static permitting...
...affection on a large, undisciplined mongrel named Spot. She took over the Johns Hopkins Children's Heart Clinic in 1930, is so deeply absorbed in her work that she seldom gets home until 9 p.m. A major aversion: the press, ever since she felt that the recent wave of publicity on her work with blue babies had hurt her professionally (to the medical mind, publicity often ranks high among the more loathsome diseases...