Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese Naval Department at Tokyo reported that 400 persons are missing as the result of a storm and an ensuing tidal wave which swept the east coast of Korea-that part of Japan situated on the mainland. The total number of lives lost is unknown, but it is feared that it is large...
...collision with Jupiter. And instead of increasing their nucleus of educated men by putting their universities on a sound financial basis, they seek to spread a thin coating of information over the masses by means of isolated lectures. Meanwhile, conditions in the universities have resulted in a student suicide wave which may easily rob future Russia of the few trained men who might otherwise be available...
...books do not bring such a big price that the donation of the excess volumes in anyone's library will be a great financial sacrifice. Those who enjoy the sensation of having played the good Samaritan as well as those who want to make the "life on the rolling wave" a little jollier will achieve their ambitions by giving to the Association any reading matter which they may have outgrown. At the same time, the collectors will take old clothing for the semi-annual Phillips Brooks House collection, so that when June and packing-time comes round closets...
...Vassar they wave a distaff over the heads of the professors, and threaten to force all their instructors to undergo grading by the student body. At New Haven they wield a stouter weapon. "The Saturday Evening Pest", a single sheet anonymously printed, has announced its purpose to bring about a complete change in the undergraduate point of view: "We believe--that Yale is preparing men not to live, but to make a living--that the life of the undergraduate is stupid, empty, and meaningless". At the same time the communication columns of the more conservative "News" have been rife with...
...recognized that the air has become too full of a number of things (mostly static). Therefore the members of the council have pledged themselves to a general house-cleaning. In this the government may present certain slices of its present monopoly of 600-1600 metre wave lengths to the big broadcasting stations. At the same time all stations will be licensed and classified so that the air will at last have a traffic system. Beside this, the song writers and publishers are demanding aerial royalties. As they refuse to be satisfied with less than four hundred thousand dollars annually, there...