Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letters from 24 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces, received within the past fortnight at Station WGY, Schenectady (N.Y.), studio of the General Electric Co., from which quizzes arranged by TIME are broadcast each Thursday night at 10:30 p. m., Eastern Standard Time, wave length 379.5 metres...
Scaremongers whispered: "It's a wave, sweeping the colleges. . . . A club . . . the members make solemn compact...
...unlimited treasures which may be unearthed by any earnest college student. He realizes that the majority of college educations are not wasted, although there be many misfits in the advanced educational palaces of today, and consequently he does not, as some may claim, attempt to repel the surging wave of American youth into the colleges, professional and technical schools which may or may not be anxious to harbor them. His objective, as connoted by his versed opinions seems to be this, that a clear understanding of what real education is, may be gained, just where to look...
...automobileful of thugs fleeing town. Chief Zober and his aids were impressed by the device's perfect functioning for a radius of 150 ft., waited only for a city wide demonstration to adopt the equipment for the Passaic force. Inventor Rusch claimed a 3.5-mi. radius on a wave length (15 metres) short enough to insure secrecy from the listening public...
...Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought to him by fawning mer- chants. The tremendous arches, waterworks and sewers at ruined Timgad earn an indulgent wave of his hand but at St. Augustine's tomb he says: "Plumb out of date, the whole business . . . I'm talkabout the whole possetucky? the whole kit-an'-boodle. . . . The human race has got to make progress. . . . The Almighty doesn't care a nickel about anything except our makin' that progress...