Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wave. She was a minor celebrity when she came back to the U.S. in 1942 to champion the cause of the Chinese Nationalists. For a while she worked in Washington, covering the State Department for International News Service, switched to OWI and later to the New York Herald Tribune. But she was not happy away from China, and in 1946 she went back...
...radio telescope has detected waves shorter than 60 cm. that come from the depths of space beyond the sun. The mysterious "radio stars" (TIME, April 24) have been picked up only on wave lengths much longer than the Navy will use. This does not prove that they send out no shorter waves. Perhaps the new precision-built, delicately sensitive telescope will find new constellations of stars that shine by radio "light...
...apparatus is designed to detect radiation from outer space in three wave lengths: 3, 10, and 30 centimeters. All these penetrate the atmosphere, which is opaque to all other waves except those in the neighborhood of visible light...
Identification of this property, Chief Randall added, may put an end to the latest crime wave that has annoyed residents of the Law School and College...
...Infirmary would not release the actual number of students confined to its 115 beds, but it did admit that "a great many people" have registered in the building since the wave of influenza began, a week ago. The Infirmary is almost full now, except for a few rooms left open for an emergency...