Word: waved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sullivan promptly quit in protest; Chief of Naval Operations Denfield was kicked into a fleet command when he complained. The new Secretary of the Navy was chosen from a civilian job in which "he never got any closer to the Navy than a row-boat." And there was a wave of mutterings in Congress about the "high-handedness" of Secretary Johnson's move. The forthcoming test is a result of this Congressional pressure...
Professor Birch's laboratory has become a center of research on the nature of the materials of the earth. He has delved into underground conditions of high temperature, chemical solutions, and earthquake wave motion...
...wave of indignation about the pending restriction of its social activities swiftly spread among the Princeton student body, and Wednesday night 2000 undergraduates massed to hear student speakers attack the administration's proposed two-party schedule...
...counter jamming is to use so many frequencies that the opponent cannot obliterate them all. The Voice now uses 36 stations and the BBC 25. They change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...
...TIME, April 18), Levine challenged the constitutionality of such price-fixing. Like Doc Webb, he won. Last week, in a unanimous decision, a five-judge appellate court threw the state board's price-fixing powers down the hatch. Unless the decision was reversed, there would soon be a wave of price-cutting all over the state. In July, 29 million gallons of aged whisky laid down right after VE-day would roll on to the market, ready to help the downward push...