Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months Manhattan's tweedy jack-of-all letters, Christopher Morley and Britain's critic-historian (and authority on U.S. matters), Denis Brogan, with a partner apiece, have pitched "stumpers" at each other by short wave. The questions are designed to determine "who knows most about the other's country." The show's aim: to promote Anglo-American understanding with geniality instead of gags, and without benefit of cash awards...
...prosperous, picturesque Berkshire Mountain village of Lenox, Mass, is the last place anyone would be likely to look for a U.S. school even remotely suggestive of Dickens' wretched Dotheboys Hall. Until the recent cold wave hit, few people in Lenox knew what was really going on inside the 44-room onetime private mansion which housed the tony ($1,400 a year) Duncan School for Boys. Then the school pipes froze and a plumber was called...
...Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society last week, he told how he had projected a very fine light beam vertically in a glass tube, then dropped into the beam microscopic particles of matter (e.g., chromium). When the particles were smaller than the light's wave length, they fell straight down. But bigger particles, instead of falling straight, as they would have if affected only by gravity, fell in a corkscrew spiral, with regularly spaced turns...
When last week's cold wave sent temperatures to 18° below zero at Portland, Me., to 16° below at Binghamton, N.Y., the Association of American Railroads decided it was time for drastic action. With the approval of the Office of Defense Transportation, A.A.R. clamped a tight three-day embargo on all non-Government freight moving east of Lake Michigan and north of the Chesapeake and Ohio lines in Virginia...
Recording six days a week in Los Angeles, Martha Wilkerson uses the aeronym, "G.I. Jill." Her transcriptions, flown out in six-day batches by A.F.R.S., are tenderly passed from one mosquito network to the next. The show also goes by short wave to Europe, Africa, Australia, the Aleutians, and war zones between and beyond. For good reason her closing line is: "Good morning to some of you, good afternoon to some more of you, and to the rest of you-good night...