Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started on the project in an effort to anticipate "magnetic storms" that hamper short-wave radio reception from across the Atlantic. To keep the messages flowing during such a storm, the company has to call extra men to operate emergency equipment. So it wants to know well in advance when to expect trouble. Since magnetic storms are believed to have some connection with sunspots, RCA assigned Engineer J. H. Nelson, who is also an amateur astronomer, to dig into the research job, and built him a small observatory on a roof in downtown Manhattan...
...ordinary days. Nelson can also predict, in a general way, the periods that will probably be free from serious magnetic disturbances. They are most likely to occur when Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are spaced equally about the sun. In 1934, when the planets were spaced in that pattern, short-wave stations had less trouble than in any other year between 1930 and 1949. The next period of similar promising conditions...
...better that her rusted shell Should rest beneath the wave; If naval hearts have turned to lead, Then leave her to her grave; Left flounders man her silent gun, Let squid now grasp her wheel; For men once bold, have lost their nerve, And only ships are steel! Stephen O. Saxe '51 and Andrew E. Norman '51, With thanks to Oliver W. Holmee...
...Strike Wave. In southern Iran the Communists, using loudspeakers, incited 12,000 of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s 80,000 workers into a strike. In Masjid-i-Suleiman strikers asked for a pay rise; at Agha Jari, they wanted control of the A.I.O.C. Transport system. The Reds were concerned only with spreading unrest...
Ready to Cross? "We have now substantially cleared South Korea of organized Communist forces . . . The enemy's human wave tactics definitely [have] failed . . . With the development of existing methods of mass destruction, numbers alone do not offset vulnerability inherent in . . . deficiencies . . . [in] tanks, heavy artillery and other refinements science has introduced into the conduct of military campaigns . . . Red China . . . has been shown its complete inability to accomplish by force of arms the conquest of Korea...