Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis had to leave promptly, or it would be towed out of the harbor by a gunboat. Her captain announced the ship would sail for Germany by way of Lisbon at 10 a. m. next morning. And as he had said that he feared mutiny or a wave of suicides if the refugees were returned, the St. Louis was followed out to sea by 26 police boats to pick up any other passengers who might fling themselves into the waters. Slowly the ship cruised off the coast of Florida, barely making way, sometimes steaming in aimless circles, until President Laredo...
...called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last week the people were moving under cloudless skies; the wheat was up, the fishing was good, and a wave of celebrations, fairs, festivals, holidays, anniversaries, colored the old towns from Liége in Belgium to Brashov in Rumania...
...choruses from "Il Matrimonio Segreto;" Bach, "Jesu, Who Didst Ever Guide Me;" Bach, "The Lamb That Was Slain For Us;" Paine, choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes; Dvorak, arrangements of two Czechoslovakian folksongs; and Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe." The concert will be broadcast internationally by the non-commercial short wave station W1XAL, of Boston, on 6.04 and 11.73 megacycles...
...conclusion of the speech, the King and Queen stepped down from the marquee into the open area. The grouped World War Veterans kept their places stiffly for a moment, and then, chanting "We want the King!", surged toward the Royal couple. Guards moved to interfere but the King waved them away. A greying veteran grasped the King's hand with his right, the Queen's with his left. Others slapped the King on the back, wrung the Queen's free hand. "You don't need any bullet-proof glass here, Your Majesty!" they cried. "God bless...
...last concert, given before a crowd of over a thousand, was broadcast over short wave station W1XAL and carried to all parts of the world. Harvard men in Cartwright, Labrador, 1500 miles north of Boston, reported hearing the program...