Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equipment. Daylight is unfavorable to wireless communication, but the MacMillian planes will be equipped with sets for transmitting 20-, 40-, 80-and 180-metre wave lengths. It is believed that the shorter wave lengths will pierce the hitherto impenetrable belt of static between the latitudes of 55° and 75°. The Radio Broadcasters' League hopes to be able to transmit a running account of the expedition's adventures by stepping up its messages at a Chicago station. Eskimo folk songs are also part of the tentative program...
...wave of indignation which has followed the suppression of the Lampoon by the Cambridge police has affected not only students of the University but also many members of the Faculty...
...many types of vibrations in the ether about them, the unaided human senses can perceive only a small portion. The spectrum of visible light runs from deep violet, with a wavelength of 16 millionths of an inch, down to deep red, with waves 28 millionths of an inch long. On the "ultra" side of this spectrum, occur the ultraviolet rays with waves 1 millionth of an inch; then a range of little-known shorter vibrations; then the famed X-rays; then, shortest of all known rays, the gamma rays given off by radium. On the infra or long wave side...
...That a wave of crime, taking the form of a series of robberies, passed over the University at an early hour yesterday morning, was attested to by members of at least four college dormitories last night. According to the reports the wave seems to have centered at Westmorley Court, but the ripples were felt as far away as Perkins and Divinity Halls...
...voice of Tetrazzini, not strong but of great resonance, was peculiarly suited to the radio. Her singing was rebroadcasted to all the British stations and was heard by enthusiasts on the Continent. Many vainly hoped that the U. S. coastal stations would pick up the tremoring wave lengths, as they did those of a jazz concert at the Hotel Savoy, London, a few days later...