Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink trade is rather more threatened than it used to be by the temperance wave that is going on all over the world. ... I know at least two Parliamentary candidates who have actually been approached with offers of money from the liquor interests. In 1919 my wife succeeded me in the House of Commons. She made her maiden speech in favor of keeping shorter the hours of the sale of drink. . . . The trade has tried continuously to get her out of public life...
...September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from a flight reported (London Daily Mail, Army Edition) to include 310 Allied planes of all kinds and descriptions. First came a wave or "v" formation of seven planes. This was not unusual. Slightly interesting. In a moment, another similar formation- still not too unusual. Within a few minutes, dozens of such formations-the air was full of them. Hats, mess kits and everything else were going into the air-we felt certain...
...That speck, the pilot knows, represents his plane, which he may guide safely over trees, fences, hangars, just as they appear on the screen. Elaborate though the scheme sounded, skeptics forbore scoffing, recalling Inventor Hammond's previous exploits:wireless control of torpedoes and ships; the multiple message carrier wave for radio telegraphy. He is consulting engineer to Radio Corp. of America and General Electric...
...Conn., June 5.--With the Harvard training quarters sweltering in the heat wave that has swept over New England, Coach Whiteside limited his crews to very moderate workouts today...
Among the many advantages to be gained from graduating from Harvard College is the way one spends the early weeks of June, before and after. Undergraduates who find that the present warm wave makes no appreciable contribution to the solution of the final examination problem may find some consolation in turning their tired eyes up to Saint Paul. In that storied town of the late "middle border" an increase of temperature merely means an extra dip in the waters of Minnetonka for Harvard graduates of as little as one year's standing who have taken the precaution of joining...