Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crisis, later to reach its peak of influence under the editorship of Atlanta University's scholarly VV. E. Burghardt Du Bois.* It circulated a news service to the Negro press, which now numbers over 200 papers and magazines. It lobbied for Negro legislation, and, when a post-War wave of lynchings carried off ten returned Negro soldiers in 1919 (two of them burned alive), it began to spend an increasing amount of its energy promoting State and then Federal anti-lynching laws. Palefaced Negro White did his job well. He talked to members of mobs that executed some 40 lynchings...
Directly traceable to the Leftist victory at Teruel, however, was a wave of desertions from the Rightist Army. At Gibraltar, foreigners were able to see evidence of it with their own eyes. All week long the Leftist consul at Gibraltar went about with pockets stuffed with cash like a racing bookmaker. In driblets, two and three men at a time, Rightist deserters arrived, some in rowboats from Algeciras across the bay, some by land from La Linea across no man's land to neutral ground. Back & forth to British police headquarters went the consul to pay the small fines...
...height of the Rightist counteroffensive Franco's forces were able to cut communications between the Leftist command in Teruel and its two wings. But neither side could bring sufficient reinforcements through the snow, and the Left wings held until the Rightist wave had broken...
John D. Wild, assistant professor of Philosophy, will speak on "Difficulties of Idealism" in the regular short-wave broadcast tonight at 8 o'clock over the non-commercial station WIXAL, in Boston...
...years Dr. George Speri Sperti and his associates in Cincinnati have been studying the effects on yeast cells and other organic material of ultraviolet radiation obin the short, lethal wave lengths. It was noticed that when some cells were injured by radiation, the life processes of uninjured cells were stimulated. The Cincinnati researchers radiated some yeast cells long enough to kill them all, then took the fluid containing the cell corpses, centrifuged and filtered it, added it to a suspension of normal cells. The "respiration" (oxygen intake) of these was observed to increase by 10%. It appeared that before they...