Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trophy was posted in 1912 by M. Jacques Schneider, famed French sportsman and maker of firearms. It is a large bronze of a nude winged female swooping down to kiss one of a group of male faces formed in the crest of an ocean wave...
...demanding that expensive subsidies to veterans and bureaucratic, extravagance be abolished, the cry will go up prematurely for socialism or for government poor relief. The strictures of the income tax will be felt where the depression has struck only lightly hitherto. In any case the rich do not wave a red flag. There have been casualties among the capitalists, but the dance has gone on. A stiff income tax may prevent the spectacle of a bread line shouldering the bejeweled guests at a charity ball...
With the world skating on the thin ice of international finance as it has recently, however, everything threatens to be possible. Should Germany and Central Europe fail to maintain their credit and admit collapse, Hitler might well ride the wave to victory. For that which destroyed the old order would set him in its place...
Researches in general physics furnished the material for the work going forward in the Jefferson Laboratory in the past. Radiations which are the vehicle of "wireless" or "radio" communication--of greater wave-length than those of the visible spectrum--have been the especial interest of the members of the Harvard physics staff in the Cruft Laboratory...
Professor Theodore Lyman is Director of the Jefferson Laboratory. His field of research is the study of light of extremely short wave length...