Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Dunham, the research being done has no immediate utilitarian aim, and is being carried on solely in the interests of pure science. Cosmic rays are believed to be in the category with X-rays and light rays, but of considerably greater frequency and shorter wave length. "Ordinary light will penetrate glass and a few thin substances. X-rays are more penetrating, and will go through a few millimeters of lead. In contrast to both these, cosmic rays are able to pass through two feet of lead...
Monetary Internationalism, Said Gates McGarrah, reviewing the Great Depression Year: "Events have shown to what extent our monetary systems, bott great and small, have become interdependent. Internationalism in monetary matters is now not merely a theory but an accomplished fact! The tidal wave of uncertainty and fear . originated in Austria, swept quickly through Hungary and Germany . . . flowed onward to Britain and the Scandinavian countries backwashing into the United States, and carried unusual demands on the American gold supply and credit system...
...which brought production down to 20% of capacity. It takes copper 120 days from mine to market so the effect has not yet been felt. Last week copper dropped to 5½ per lb., lowest price in history Metal & Mineral Markets said nothing has occurred to bring on the present wave of pessimism. But observers thought that low prices, possibilities of complete shutdowns, might influence Congress' attitude towards a copper tariff...
...sudden landslide from the rain-soaked, earthen cliffs that tower above the Rhone had sent a heaving mass of mud hurtling down Caliure Hill where it burst like a tidal wave upon two apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which promptly burst into flame. A little further down the very street on which the two apartment houses had stood is the comfortable bourgeois home of Edouard Herriot, for 25 years Mayor of Lyon, Leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, outstanding French statesman of the Left Centre, and therefore apparently destined...
...grunion come out on the beaches to spawn. . . . After the female fish has been washed up with a high wave she buries her tail in sand that is light and all but dry. In this position she lays her eggs. The male lies arched beside her ready to fertilize the eggs. It is when the females are struggling to extricate themselves from their half-buried positions that they seem to 'stand on their tails and dance to the rhythm of the surf...