Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price-freeze order. Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, considered the edict "premature" because the machinery needed to put the plan in operation is not yet ready. On the other hand, Malcolm P. McNair, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, said it should have come earlier to prevent the wave of scare-buying that has been going on and keep prices at a lower level. No mention was made of a price roll-back...
...Degree holder in electrical, radio, communication engineering or physics (electronics or wave propagation). Those over 27 must have five years experience. Men in I-a or II-a are not eligible...
Harold Stassen: "I found the whole world is rapidly awakening to the extreme evils of Communist imperialism. Very little remains of the fuzzy thinking of the immediate postwar years when many thought that in some manner Communism would be the wave of the future and would turn out to be benign...
Still fighting hard, Italy's two million Communists promised a wave of strikes and demonstrations against the Atlantic pact this week when General Eisenhower arrives in Rome. De Gasperi, who has promised three Italian divisions, said: "We will meet Eisenhower with loyalty of purpose and the solidarity of free...
Working with radioactive tracers and delicate chemical tests, Dr. Williams and colleagues followed the progress of this two-stage wave of growth. It starts, they found, in a tiny group of 22 cells in the insect's brain. These generate a hormone that acts upon glands in the body, making them produce another hormone. This in turn causes certain cells to produce three enzymes (organic catalysts) that start the rapid growth of metamorphosis...