Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, likes to wave his hand toward the filing cases containing the names of all those whom his radio-voice has incited to write to him. He likes to say: "The 8,000,000 members of my National Union for Social Justice. . . ." Yet the best likeness this radiorator ever saw of his 8,000,000 followers was the face of a microphone. Last week in Detroit's Olympia Auditorium he attempted a new adventure: to meet his followers in the flesh...
...girls, however gallant, do not ride in the Grand National at Aintree. Each of these unlikely happenings occurs in Author Bagnold's "National Velvet," but so compelling is the wave of her magic wand that the surliest realist will nod and grin approval. Nor should hippophobes shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy. Humorous, charming, "National Velvet" is a little masterpiece of English sentiment. Velvet was 14, going on 15, and looked "like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three...
...transmitter sends out one radio wave that travels along the ground and another that travels out into the atmosphere at different angles. A measurement of the time interval between the reception of the ground and the angle waves, the "echo," at a distant station, reveals the altitude and position of the ionized clouds...
...transmitter sends a circularly-polarized or "corkscrew" wave which can be spun clockwise or counterclockwise as it moves through space. The set also transmits the ordinary type of radio wave...
Just before an epileptic has a fit, a "larval explosion" of large surges occurs through his brain, three every second, producing 100 to 300 millionths of a volt each. The wave pattern is large, slow and evenly curved but cut by sharp downward strokes which perhaps reflect convulsions in the brain. During the depths of the epileptic fit, the characteristic long slow curves assume an unbroken S-shape...