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Word: waving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast. The bed pneumatic, the closets full of revolving shelves, the walls transparent but windowless, the cooking done by vacuum mazda units, dishwashing and laundry done mechanically in three minutes, all doors opening at the wave of a hand before photoelectric cells, the dymaxion house tries to do everything directly and independently. It can be planted anywhere, regardless of water, sewage, gas or electricity supply lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art, Aug. 22, 1932 | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...understood their sufferings and have worked to the limits of my strength to help them. . . . G. O. P. v. Radicalism, "Herein is the fundamental issue: A representative democracy, progressive and unafraid to meet its problems, but meeting them upon the foundations of experience (Artificial applause), and not upon the wave of emotion or the insensate demands of a radicalism which grasps at every opportunity to exploit the sufferings of a people. . . . One Desire. "I have but one desire-to see my country again on the road to prosperity. ... I rest the case of the Republican party on the intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Undefeated and Unafraid | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...pale, ailing dowager who bears an increasing resemblance to her father, John Davison Rockefeller, was installed in a four-room suite at Chicago's Drake Hotel last week. The rooms, overlooking Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan's wave-rimmed shore, were so expensive that many persons would be glad to call them "home." But to Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick the move was a heartbreaking acquiescence to the condition she always speaks of as "the change." Once worth 40, 50, perhaps 60 million dollars, last week in her 60th year she found her tremendous fortune largely vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dowager at the Drake | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...stormy, treacherous North Sea, and the Bramblewick harbor entrance, a narrow passage between two "scaurs" (reefs) which any heavy sea makes impassable. In this setting, as old as the hills of sea water about which he eloquently writes, Author Walmsley tells a tale like the sea's next wave, unique and fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Wine in Old Tanks | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

When a pilot lands out of sight of his take-off he gets to a telephone, calls headquarters at Elmira Airport. Headquarters flashes his position by short-wave radio to the crew atop the ridge, and off they go with the trailer to retrieve the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Gliding at Elmira | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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