Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey. Toreador Franklin had planned one for next week. He wanted to show U. S. citizens how he did it in Spain. He promised that it would be a gentle fight. He planned to use a rubber sword, pad the bull's horns. He said he would wave his cape and let the bull run at him. But not unless it was absolutely necessary would the bull be harmed...
...Author. For some months Author Bennett acted as house-detective for the Savoy Hotel, spying on the life of his monstrous love. Fat. sloppy-looking, with prominent teeth, hanging lower lip, a wave of hair, droopy eyes, Arnold Bennett would have been more conspicuous, not so well cast, as a maitre d'hotel...
...means of an instrument so sensitive as to register a variation of one-one-millionth in an assigned wave length a 1,000 mi. away, the staff of ten at Grand Island will check between 300 and 400 wireless and broadcasting stations during a 24-hour working day. Not only will the wave wobbling of U. S. stations be detected but those in Canada and Mexico will be watched to see they do not creep out of the channels allotted them by international agreements. Entertainment programs will be brought in to evaluate their public worth, though no censorship will...
...Wolverines, undefeated and having only one tie to mar their record, and leading the Western Conference race along with Northwestern come riding on the crest of a wave. A stirring 14 to 12 victory over the Crimson last year gives them confidence and smashing triumphs over Purdue, Ohio State, and Illinois this year have shown that they possess tremendous power...
...need be discouraged by the present recession and wets will do well not to jubilate too much. This recession will not go back very far and the next wave will carry prohibition further than it has yet gone. No one who has studied the history of the movement can be in any doubt about that...