Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Margaret Deibel got home to her children (Danny, 2½, Mary Louise, six months) two days later, her living room was jampacked with friends, lawyers, casual well-wishers and the local police chief. The chief had earlier lugged many mail sacks, the first wave of her coinucopia, to the jail for safekeeping. In the city hall basement last week Mrs. Deibel, with the help of a volunteer corps of accountants, Kiwanis, American Legion and Lions members, sat dazedly opening envelopes and untaping or unwrapping her mounting pile of coins. At last count, her take was some 130,000 contributions...
...Motz's "millimeter-wave generator" is made up, first, of a linear accelerator that produces a pulsed beam of electrons about ? inch in diameter. The electrons, whose energy is 2,000,000 electron volts, pass into an "undulator," a silver wave guide that is held between 16 pointed steel teeth. The teeth set up separate and alternating magnetic fields, and as the electrons pass from field to field, they are made to oscillate, forming the desired waves less than one millimeter long...
Work on the millimeter-wave generator was financed by the Office of Naval Research, and the Navy has hopes of using the tiny waves for short-range signaling. They fade out quickly in air, so there would be no chance that the enemy might pick them up at a distance. But Dr. Motz is more interested in the scientific uses of his waves. They oscillate so rapidly that they may be able to "see" into atoms, revealing properties that scientists can only guess...
...1880s a series of bloody pogroms in the Russia of Czar Alexander III set off another great wave of Jewish immigration -2,000,000 came to the U.S. between 1881 and 1914. mostly from Russia and Poland. These Eastern Jews brought with them orthodoxy, Zionism, the Yiddish language and a tighter grip on their Jewish traditions than the Germans had shown...
...furious winds spiraling toward Carol's center piled up the water in a wave-topped mound that swept with the hurricane toward the helpless coast. When it finally hit, the wind-driven water had nowhere to go. Dammed up by wind pressure, it submerged the breakwaters, sandspits and islands, covering them deeply enough to allow the great waves to ride into harbors and bays...