Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against these all the great storm broke. A wave slapped the tall ship's side, burst in a thick glass port, flooded a cabin and swept a man reclining in security out of his berth, wrenching his shoulder out of place. The gale increased. At times it blew 100 miles an hour. More ports were driven in? eleven ports in all. On three successive days, green water rolled over the boat deck, 90 ft. above the keel. Two stewards were thrown down a companionway and broke their arms. The expansive panes of the windows protecting the promenades and staterooms were...
Selecting only twenty-six names from the galaxy of genius which the nineteenth century brought forth, he includes only one Englishman among them. This fortunate is Sir Walter Scott. With a Pecksniffian wave of his hand, he disposes of all the array of poetic brilliance from Wordsworth to Tennyson. It is evident on the face of it that Signor Croce has not written a history of European literature in the nineteenth century...
...other roll calls. Some will come back to pay a brief parting call-Magnus Johnson, for example; Senators Ball, Dial, Stanley, Walsh of Massachusetts, McCormick, before a forced retirement to rustication on their farms and by their native fireside. A few, such as Senator Elkins, will be back to wave a gayer adieu. Others such as Senators Walsh, of Montana, Brookhart, of Iowa, will return with a sigh of relief, knowing that they may come again. But, in the main, it will be the same identical Congress-the Congress that nobody liked...
Seven years ago* the Kerensky Provisional Government fell and the Bolsheviki seized power on the crest of a wave of slaughter...
...Technology, recently perfected a device capable of measuring intervals as small as one-billionth of a second. His method, first conceived by Prof. P. O. Pederson of the University of Copenhagen, consists of the employment of the so-called "Lichtenberg Figures"-phenomena which become manifest when an electric wave is reflected from an electrode. When two electrodes are placed side by side at a given angle, these Lichtenberg Figures will meet, coincide-the moment of their coincidence depending upon the time (unimaginably brief) required by the waves in their passage between the electrodes. So large is the ratio of these...