Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course involves the idea that science can never positively identify its picture of the universe with ultimate reality, that even an approximation is not certain. In the main body of the book the author emphasizes this fact while outlining the present position of scientists in regard to relativity, wave mechanics, the theory of indeterminacy, etc. With excellent tact he has written his outline on two levels, by following up literary exposition with more abstruse mathematical analysis, which is optional reading and will be gratefully skipped by readers whose intelligence is no more capable of following it than this reviewer...
Under the headline HEAT WAVE STRIKES CITY, Ethel Waters, in a gay and gaudy martinique costume incinerates her audience with a thumping little tune with a haunting Caribbean lilt...
...started a heat wave...
...making her seat wave...
...know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter 'S' is gone forever. But I have been bothered with round-the-world echoes, especially on the nine-meter wave. We have picked up short words encircling the globe several times. It takes one-seventh of a second for a word to girdle the globe. I have intercepted the word 'no' after it sped around the world several times. The trick is difficult with longer words. At times...