Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours after the final message, Mrs. Morrow went to the International Institute in Manhattan to deliver a speech about Mexico. Almost bursting with pride, she began: "As you know, my children, Anne and Charles Lindbergh, have just flown across the South Atlantic. I'm on top of the wave. At a time of such great happiness, it is a wonderful thing to be among old friends, and I know you will forgive me if my tongue slips...
...Harvard becomes so narrow that it cannot include within its curriculum a few courses in the art of national preservation, Harvard had better cease to exist as a national institution, or as an institution of any kind. A Harvard diploma is a wonderful thing for a job seeker to wave under the nose of an employer, but it will not turn aside enemy gunfire, or protect the "guts" or "lack of guts" from an enemy bayonet. Perhaps, the author of the editorial is quite sure that he will never face an enemy bayonet. Such is his privilege. But I wish...
...brokerage office of Mr. Ungerleider, into its peculations from the Veterans' Bureau, the Interior Department, the Alien Property Custodian's office. The gang went its way, back to Ohio or to jail. George Christian, by now a deserving Republican, was left in Washington by the receding wave of history...
Last Sunday night and the Sunday before, a short-wave broadcasting station in Pittsburgh took a half hour of worship to the thousands of Presbyterians, Baptist and Methodist missionaries in every land...
...morning last week she drove to the airport, ordered a plane with "plenty of gasoline." With a cheery wave to the field crew she took off, headed east, toward the Atlantic...