Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Hawaii's new and elaborate tidal wave warning system had gone into action. From Arizona, and Sitka and Fairbanks in Alaska, reports from other seismographs were flashed to the Coast and Geodetic Survey's central clearinghouse for wave warnings on Oahu. The quake was plotted in the Kamchatka area...
...when Elizabeth II, clad in a pale gold evening dress and white ermine cloak, at last emerged from the palace and entered the Irish State Coach. Breastplated household cavalrymen rode ahead, scarlet outriders trotted alongside as the Queen was borne to Westminster through wave after wave of band music and past a United Press photographer who got a memorably radiant picture of the young Queen (see cut). At Westminster she was greeted by an ear-splitting bray of heraldic trumpets...
Navy Captain Mitsuo Fuchida was one of Japan's most famous flying officers of World War II. He led the first wave of bombers in the raid on Pearl Harbor, then circled high over Oahu for nearly three hours, directing the attack. He was later wounded at the Battle of Midway and spent the rest of the war as air operations officer at Japanese navy headquarters. At war's end, he went back to his farm near Osaka, sullen and bitter over Japan's defeat...
After about five minutes, Mrs. Lucas told the doctor that Billy's eyes were beginning to change. The doctor, a cool & collected type, scarcely looked up from his brain-wave charts. It was too soon for any change, he said; that would take at least half an hour. After ten minutes, Mrs. Lucas began to feel tension in Billy's usually limp muscles. The doctor said it was her imagination. After 15 minutes, she insisted that the doctor look at Billy, who was really "coming to life." Still skeptical, the doctor snapped his fingers beside Billy...
...telescope, which looks like an ordinary instrument without the mirror, receives radiations from free hydrogen of wave lengths of from 1 mm, to ten meters in length. According to Shapley, radio-astronomy is an entirely new and important field, in which British, Dutch, and French astronomers, as well as those of this country, are working...