Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealthiest of Moslem leaders, Sir Firozkhan Noon, a Punjab landowner, did not hesitate to wave the Red flag; "If neither [the Hindus nor the British] give [Pakistan] to us . . . if our own course is to fight, and if in that fight we go down, the only course for Moslems is to look to Russia. ... I will be the first to lose every rupee I have in order that we may be free in this country." Five thousand Moslems cheered. Even the women in the purdah enclosure to the left of the platform could be heard-applauding behind their screen...
...terrible crime wave is now raging in Siam," cabled TIME'S Bangkok correspondent last week. "It is no wonder that King Ananda is taking a special interest...
...Tsunami (pronounced (tsu-nah'-mee) is a Japanese term favored by seismologists over the popular but inaccurate "tidal wave." Literal translation: seismic sea-wave...
...Radio waves in the short wave band are peculiarly sensitive to solar conditions. Their normal line of travel is to the ionosphere (which begins 30 miles up), and then back to the earth by reflection. When the ionosphere is supercharged, as it is during sunspot periods, most of the radio short waves are absorbed, and transmission breaks down...
...Unless the law is subsequently modified," President Conant declared, "all our colleges, universities, and technical schools will have heavy responsibilities when the wave of demobilized veterans hits our, educational system. Unless high standards of performance can be maintained in spite of sentimental pressures and financial temptation we may find the least capable among the war generation, instead of the most capable, flooding the facilities for advanced education in the United States. Such a situation would be detected before long by the general public and the reaction against our colleges might be severs indeed...