Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political speechmaking is a new avocation for Mrs. Gann. Topeka, Omaha and Chicago have heard her. Women turn out to see "the girl who put Alice Longworth in her place." In substance her addresses wave the U. S. flag, laud President Hoover, belittle the Depression and exude good Republican cheer. She returns to Washington to encourage national headquarters with reports that women everywhere are enthusiastic about a Hoover-Curtis ticket this year...
...necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening for his solid left hook. Levinsky forced the fighting. In the fourth round, confident, unhurt, he made a gesture which Chicago fight spectators last saw after Dempsey knocked down Gene Tunney in 1927, a scornful wave of one glove which meant "Come on and fight." There was no official decision, but of 24 sportswriters 18 agreed that Levinsky...
Professor Robert E. Rogers of M. I. T. has proposed to the Massachusetts State Legislature that it take action to establish and support a short-wave radio station from which educational programs would be broadcast under the direction of the State Board of Education. Professor Rogers asserts that the few educational programs now fostered by commercial stations are at best sporadic or punctuated with advertising. He claims that a state institution such as he suggests would cost little to maintain, and that talent could easily be secured for its programs...
...nasal intonation of advertising blurbs. But if the suggestion is adopted, great care must be taken lest it, too, become barren of worth. Its operation should be placed in the hands of a non-political board; its benefits should not be confined to the small minority who possess short-wave receivers; and programs should be so arranged as not to become stereotyped and unpalatable...
Justice Townsend Scudder, judging the six, singled out the pointer, the Scotch terrier and the greyhound. Nancolleth Markable scrutinized his handler, then his owner, then the judge. At a wave of applause in the last minutes of the judging, he faced around to give the crowd a solemn look. When Judge Scudder handed his handler the rosette for first prize, he gave a jump and sniffed. To Gamecock Duke of Wales went the trophy for the best American-bred dog in the Show...