Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second wave of Moscow indignation against Washington broke two days later last week, apropos the Chinese Eastern Railway. Barely two months have passed since the State Department tried to smooth over this Asiatic crisis by invoking the Kellogg Pact, only to receive a sharp snub from the Soviet Foreign Office (TIME, Dec. 16). Moscow is still convinced that Washington acted from "unfriendly motives," believes too that U. S. Railroader John J. Mantell went to China for no other purpose than to destroy Russia's sphere of influence over the railway by fair means or foul (TIME, Sept...
...weather conditions, and to afford a very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then one of the transport planes crunched through...
...peppered with bullets from C. G. 290. Coast Guard claim: a siren first warned the Black Duck to stop; she tried to escape; a one-pound shot failed to halt her; machine gun fire was a last resort; the Black Duck either veered her course or rose on a wave crest to catch the full volley of lead...
...thought-provoking. As an ideal, the Greek principle of a single extensive meet, with the interest rather on the universal, well-rounded development, than on the single event or the specialized group of performers, is far preferable to the Roman love of the spectacle. But unfortunately no such classical wave as the former would imply can be envisioned in this day. The Greeks lacked bands, uniforms, college songs; they lacked the inter-relation of sports and business that makes the autumn a financial gleaning-time for thousands in America, and causes one game to overpower the rest so that they...