Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard short wave radio station WIDMW will handle messages relating to the geophysical explorations of the polar expedition. Messages will be sent from Little America to Buenos Aires and relayed to the Harvard station...
Then M. Chalifour hied himself to his desk and composed the following: "I shall vote, I do not know whom to vote for, I do not care. I shall simply vote for someone whose name is not too unpronounceable. And if the great American Government questions me I shall wave, fiaunt, thrust under its nose, my cancelled check and my receipt. I, Jean-Marie Chalifour, citizen of France, will vote in Cambridge, U. S. A. I may even sell my vote to some unhappy politician who needs it. For two dollars I would vote for anyone. For three dollars...
...coast one day last week, beginning with fitful, stabbing gusts and a rain that spread out fanwise across the 200-mi. shorefront from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. The gloomy curtain rolled inland over orchards and cotton fields before the lappings and lashings of the wind. Long muddy-foamed sea waves licked angrily at the shore, tumbled into the lowlands. At Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople were huddled in strong structures on the sand bluffs back of Corpus...
...Cuba's northern hump. In Havana harbor, huge seas overthrew the Malecon sea wall, scattered stone blocks like spume, flooded the water- front six blocks inland to a depth of six feet. In full force the hurricane hit the port of Cardenas in Matanzas Province, swept a tidal wave over the city, sank a gunboat in the harbor, destroyed docks, warehouses and the railroad station, cut off water and light, killed 30, injured 100. Cardenas' famed museum of early Cuban relics fell. Members of the ABC revolutionary society, police and soldiers went out potting for the storm-spawn...
...Virginia Capes were the hurricane's next objective. Twenty-five miles off shore it swooped down upon the Old Dominion liner Madison, Norfolk-bound out of New York. A 70-ft. wave carried away the Madison's forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast...