Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tractor and deep tillage plow. It was a handsome pair. The 47-h.p. tractor, in fire-engine red and cream yellow, was the first 1956 model off the assembly line of the Cockshutt factory at Bellevue, Ohio. Equipped with a pushbutton radio for standard and short-wave broadcasts, a cigarette lighter on the dash, hydraulic controls, the tractor would retail for $4,000. Commenting that "two-thirds to three-quarters of my top soil now is in the Atlantic Ocean, or somewhere between here and there," Farmer Ike asked if the moldboard plow would cut 14 inches deep, was assured...
...overwhelming majority of these students "will not want what Harvard has to offer and would be confused and frustrated by it." Since the College student body is already in the top five per cent of the population in terms of academic ability, some "95 per cent of the 'tidal wave' of college candidates is not part of the potential Harvard clientele," the Dean said. In addition, many of the top five per cent will be girls, many others will want technical or vocational educations, and many of the young men seeking liberal educations will not want to come to Harvard...
...wave of good news pushed Southern Railway and Delaware and Hudson to new highs for the year. At week's end, the Dow-Jones railroad index rose to 167.83, highest point since...
...means of advancing a policy of avowed political pressure and of stimulating fund raising. Never before has a propaganda campaign in behalf of a foreign government been planned and carried out more blatantly and cynically, in the blaze of limelight and to the fanfare of publicity, than the present wave of hysteria now being worked up among American Jews...
...bands of waves, VHF (Very High Frequency, 30 to 60 megacycles) and UHF (Ultra High Frequency, 300 to 3.000 megacycles), have been found to scatter. No one seems to know precisely what it is that makes them do it. Meteor trails are suspected in the case of VHF. Small "blobs" of irregularity in the electrical properties of the atmosphere up to 25,000 ft. are supposed to be the scattering agent for UHF. Whatever the cause, the waves do scatter, and special apparatus has been developed for the armed services to take advantage of the scattering. Some of the equipment...