Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Krakatau, a volcanic island in the Sunda Straits about 25 miles from Java, destroyed two-thirds of itself in a mighty explosion in 1883, sent out a tidal wave that drowned 36,000 inhabitants of adjacent lands. In the Krakatau group, four new islands were formed from the wreck of the former three. Naturalists agreed almost unanimously that every particle of life, down to the last seed and spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable...
...earth, the air averages about one degree cooler, slightly more rain falls and there are disturbances of the terrestrial magnetic field. At such times ordinary radio reception is more troubled by static. But a U. S. Bureau of Standards scientist has found evidence that ultra-short-wave reception is better in the daytime when sunspots are rampant (TIME...
...Wednesday, February 17, at 4:30 o'clock, George P. Weston '97, associate professor of Romance Languages, will lecture on "Dante" in Emerson Hall, and his voice will be broadcast by short wave, at 11.79 megacycles, from station WIXAL in Boston...
...abysmal failure of seven Ivy college representatives to make any move to ward off the tidal wave of professionalism should prove that professionalism, like war, is not to be eradicated with mere diplomatic palaver by men whose hands are tied. University presidents must give up hiding their heads in the sand and assume the responsibility which they have unfairly foisted upon athletic directors and coaches--unless, of course, they are willing to admit that football can not be amateur henceforth. If athletics are part of college life, and if gate receipts make up an important share of the university...
...common stock for 382,300 shares outstanding at a declared value of $15 a share, eliminated back dividends amounting to $52.50 a share on 63,004 shares of preferred, erased sinking fund arrears of some $882,000. Meanwhile Certainteed began to nose slowly upward on the building wave, made a profit of $131,000 for the third quarter. To accelerate this rise by putting Montgomery Ward efficiency into Certainteed will be President Baumhogger...