Word: waves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Replied Pilot Carl Vickery: ''I'll try one last flight." Seven or eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave broke the starboard pontoon. Rather than taxi through the swells with his right wingtip boring the water, Pilot Vickery gunned his engines, took off for the landing field near Glenview north of the city. A mile short of that goal the weakened right wing crumpled. The plane crashed...
...grown-up chair, bow vigorously, tap for attention and direct the others. Karl Moldrem, the man who , founded and patiently trained the New York Baby Orchestra, appeared on the stage to help the children tune their violins, to remind each of the young conductors that they were to wave their arms in three-four or four-four time. Beyond that he left them to their own resources...
...much recent history and lived too much in the midst of it to believe so easily in either the efficacious or the virtues of the martial spirit. It may be true, as it is often said, that were the bands to begin to play, and the flags to wave, for all the anti-war meetings and resolutions, they would be there, and willingly. But I rather think not. For this revolt against the cliches and conventions connected with war has symptoms of a deeper break with the past...
...refused to leave his farm, he refused to permit the telegraph company to run a wire to his farm home: he refused, in short, the highest measure of success. And history will be interested in why he refused. Three years later, did not this same man, Stone, shout and wave at his cohorts in State convention that "I am in favor of taking the Philippines, I am in favor of taking everything in sight...
Thought, according to this Crile theory, is a manifestation of short-wave radiation with the brain as the commanding centre of the body's electrical energy. The thyroid and adrenal glands govern the rate of radiation in the body. The adrenal glands produce the short, sudden energy of an outburst of temper, anger or rage. The thyroid gland controls the steady, long-time radiation necessary to the body's growth and performance. "Freed electrons charge up the cells; charged up cells cause muscle tone or muscle energy in nerve cells, such as the brain. Thus emotional and nerve...