Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain, an unprecedented wave of religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with...
Last week Drs. H. A. Borthwick, M. W. Parker and S. B. Hendricks of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they had discovered something new about plants' "photoperiodism." They irradiated soybeans and other sensitive plants with narrow-wave bands of colored light from a spectroscope. Judging by the plants' responses to different colors, the experimenters decided that plants must contain invisible amounts of a blue pigment which acts as a sort of alarm clock. The scientists do not know exactly what the powerful pigment is, but when it gets the right amount of illumination, it tells...
When it bought the Toni home permanent wave slightly more than two years ago, Gillette Safety Razor Co. paid plenty for its new investment. The total: $20 million to Toni's Yale-bred, back-slapping Owner Richard Neison Wishbone Harris (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948), of which $12 million was cash. (The rest was to be paid out of Toni profits.) But the deal certainly gave Gillette's profits a well-barbered look. Last week Gillette President J. P. (for Joseph Peter) Spang Jr. announced that in 26 months Gillette had earned $8 million after taxes on Toni. With...
Only one mishap marred the trip. When one of the canoes overturned, it was caught, battered by the current, and badly damaged. According to onlookers, "the stern just seemed to wave in the water." No one, however, was injured...
Former technical director George H. Mcaly '49, said last night that Network officials had had a vague idea that the frequency switch would bring this result. "In regular broadcasting," he explained, "a lower frequency brings a greater wave length, usually resulting in clearer reproduction and greater volume at the reception point...