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Word: waving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructions to the Cambridge policemen were brief and to the point. While the squad cars stood in front of the Lampoon building the short wave radio mumbled in curt and ferocious tones from the Central Square Bastille, "If they act up, kick THEM in the pants! That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

Although no New England station has carded today's broadcast of the Harvard-Army game, Tod Husing's broadcast may be picked up over either New York or short wave stations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Husing's Broadcast | 10/15/1938 | See Source »

...judgment, two salient facts must be kept in mind. First is the fact that most vote-seeking pension advocates fully realize the hare-brained qualities, the financial impossibilities of their schemes. They have seen the Colorado fiasco. They have heard the grave warnings of most reputable economists. Still they wave the pension banners, keeping strangely silent on the question of paying the bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAM AND EGGS AND TOWNSEND | 10/13/1938 | See Source »

Traveler Kostelanetz' conclusions: "It is such long-wave rebroadcasting of short wave broadcasts thai can really bring for eign propaganda lo South American ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Honeymoon Survey | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright spots when X-rays are diffracted by crystals. Father and son joined forces, undertook intensive study of X-ray diffraction. They not only measured the wave lengths of X-rays (thousands of times shorter than those of visible light) but also penetrated the secrets of atomic architecture in crystalline substances. For these achievements William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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