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Word: waves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until he was sent to China in February. Amiable Ambassador Arita arrived at Nanking on a gunboat with decks cleared for action, has been hand-in-glove with the militarists ever since. Returning from paying his respects to his Emperor last week, the new Foreign Minister announced with a wave of his gleaming silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Feeling of Constriction | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...Show. For weeks a mounting wave of election propaganda filled the German Press. It spread like a rash to billboards, walls, streamers in the streets. Daily there were parades and speeches. Overworked Realmleader Hitler tried to limit his own campaigning to one speech every two days, leaving the rest of his time to tackling the intricate foreign situation. Stagemanager Goebbels peremptorily told him that it was not enough. Obediently, der Führer wired his embassy in London that all diplomacy would have to be postponed until after election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: May God Help Us! | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...week floated over Germany on a propaganda tour. While the Graf hovered above Bavaria sprinkling election handbills, the Hindenburg drifted beside it with a mammoth loudspeaker bleating: "The Führer's purpose is peace and honor!" By day, Reich broadcasting stations relayed special programs from a short-wave studio aboard the Hindenburg. By night, special searchlights at each major city fingered the huge sausages floating above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bolognas | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...landlubberish TIME a rebuke from wave-ruling England. You should know that only the compass is hung in gimbals, which are then suspended inside the binnacle. The binnacle itself is never gimballed (TIME, Feb. 10, China, "Junk de Luxe" - ". . . hung on gimbals like a binnacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...vexatious problem, which last week showed promise of being solved, is that of distance. Good television requires ultrashort wave lengths, one to nine metres, which have a range of only 25 to 50 miles. Thus restricted, a network of stations blanketing the country would cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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