Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lengths of the radio waves used in ordinary U. S. broadcasting range between 200 and 547 metres. Short-wave broadcasting uses waves around 50 metres in length. Last week "micro" rays only 18 centimetres (7.09 in.) long carried two-way conversations across the English Channel. International Telephone & Telegraph Laboratories and Le Matériel Télephonique of France made the test. Simple equipment did the work. Sending and receiving devices were practically the same. Each device consisted of a vacuum tube which transformed telephone frequency into the high micro-ray frequency of 1,600,000,000 oscillations a second...
...German governesses, a wave of whom penetrated Kensington in King Edward's reign and openly said that Germany ought to be top nation...
...attitude has been the sweeping undergraduate reaction which has followed on the heels of the "rah-rah collegiatism" produced in the middle of the post-war decade. Because sentimentalists and publicists seized and exploited the traditional forms of sportsmanship, it too has been driven to cover by the current wave of disgust at all the lack of restraint that the word "Collegiate" now implies...
...Heat Wave is another play about the tropics where white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot...
...lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that all Kozeluh could do was wave at it; they saw Tilden outsteady the stone wall with baffling dropshots, cross-court drives. Tilden ran the match out in straight sets, 6-4. 6-2, 6-4. Next evening in Baltimore they played the second of their series in their U. S. tour. Again Tilden won, this time...