Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gates of the city itself by Saturday night. At this point, exuberants in Salamanca were proclaiming a complete Rightist victory, publishing detailed descriptions of the relief of the garrison who had doggedly fought for their lives in the Cathedral, the Seminary and the Civil Government Building. Actually the Rightist wave broke at the city gates. Generalissimo Franco, following Leftist tactics in reverse, sent another column cross-country to retake Campillo and Villastar. Thus at week's end the battle moved into its second phase. The snow stopped, hundreds of stranded trucks dug themselves out for the relief of both...
...North Africa many Arabs faced the New Year last week with little food and less money, but plenty of others had new radio sets, many of them two. All were delivered absolutely free by suave efficient young men who set them up, tuned and locked them at a certain wave length, and departed smiling amiably...
...charity but an undeclared war of increasing bitterness caused this lavish dispersal. Ever since the British joined in voting League Sanctions against Italy during the Ethiopian crisis, the Italian short-wave radio station at Bari has poured out an unending stream of anti-British propaganda in Arabic, intended to teach all Moslem nations that the British Empire was falling to pieces, that Benito Mussolini was a proper protector for Islam...
Capable of amplifying current, altering wave shapes and frequencies, detecting electric impulses, oscillating, rectifying current, and many other duties, these modern "magic lamps," first utilized thirty years ago, now have hundreds of uses in industry, research, and entertainment...
Against this international background. Art in the U. S. had a less turbulent but no less significant year. All authorities agreed that the wave of public interest in painting which began during Depression rolled on, getting higher. In February the superb exhibition of pictures by Vincent van Gogh, assembled by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1935, closed in Manhattan after being seen by 900,000 people in nine cities, a record for traveling shows in the U. S. surpassed only by Whistler's Mother (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). In November the all-pervading Federal Art Project...