Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabulous Gene McDonald has lived ashore and lumped it, a subdued family man who sticks to a couple of beers, plays with the children while his wife studies Russian and music. His most strenuous recent struggle: a safari last week to Washington to row with the FCC over FM wave lengths...
...Signal Corps repeated the experiment many times, and disinterested scientists checked the results. Sample check: the echo wave at moonrise-when the first contact was made-was slightly higher in frequency than the outgoing pulse. In accordance with the Doppler Effect, a wave reflected from an approaching body must increase its frequency. Chiefly because of the earth's revolution, the moon at that hour was moving toward the sending station at about 750 miles an hour...
...soon after the blast as anyone was sufficiently composed to consult the seismograph, the investigators discovered the presence of an entirely new wave which no one had heretofore expected from even the most scrupulous of predictions. Leet christened the new wave the "hydrodynamic wave" because of its similarity to the motion of a ripple on an aqueous surface...
...Views. Earlier the Iranians had tried to sound out Big Three attitudes in London. The U.S. looked hopefully blank: it hoped most of all that nothing too controversial would come up at UNO's first meeting but knew that any attempt to discourage Iran would send a tidal wave of cynicism around the world...
Last week it was finally admitted: the atomic bomb proved a seismological smash-hit. It shook the earth for 20 seconds, and some of the waves it started were entirely new to seismologists. Professor Leet calls them "hydrodynamic waves." While they were passing, the particles of earth moved up, forward, down and back, very much like particles of water on the surface of a wave-tossed...