Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faster heat radiation, lengthening life. 2) Smaller size, saving space. 3) Better lead wire arrangement, improving short-wave reception. 4) Increased protection against magnetic and static interference (especially in airplanes and automobiles). 5) Less risk of damage in handling, shipping, rough use. 6) Short lead wires, promoting better amplification at high frequencies...
...Director Willis Rodney Whitney of General Electric's laboratories found that his body grew hot from an accumulation of high frequency waves when he stood in the path of a short-wave radio sending set. Out of that observation, Director Whitney developed the radiotherm, a boxlike device permeated by short waves in whose field a sick person might lie and develop a high artificial fever...
...there is no man with a sufficiently long view to appreciate that the only path to peace lies in collective action, that in crises such as the present, nations must submerge their selfish interests and pool their resources, or else run the risk of being submerged individually by another wave of nationalism and militarism that in the past has had but one result...
...reduced to eating shrimps and seaweed. Finally on June 22, 1884 Appeared a relief ship commanded by Captain Winfield Scott Schley, U. S. N. (who was to be a hero in the Spanish-American War 14 years later). Only one of Greely's men was strong enough to wave a feeble welcome before falling on his face. Of the original party of 25, Captain Schley found all but seven dead of starvation...
...height of the crime wave a new justice named Henry Fielding came to the Bow Street police court. More active than his predecessors, he began driving out at night in an innocent looking coach filled with armed deputies. Bands attempting to hold up the coach were ruthlessly shot down. At the end of a few months dozens of highwaymen had been shot off the roads and the crime wave was subsiding...