Word: bray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have just learned that while you have been away, instead of being on business as you led me to believe, you have been staying at a hotel at Bray with a lady...
...Brundage's other case was Mark Weston. Mary Edith Louise Weston was born in England 30 years ago. Among Englishwomen she was the best shotputter from 1924 to 1930, the best javelin thrower in 1927. Miss Weston had a close friend, named Alberta Bray. Two months ago Dr. L. R. Broster of London's Charing Cross Hospital performed two operations to complete Mary Weston's metamorphosis into masculinity. Said Dr. Broster: "Mr. Mark Weston, who was always brought up as a female, is male, and should continue life as such." As to whether Mark Weston could have...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a cure for some kinds of facial neuralgia by "repositioning" the sufferer's jaws. Dr. James Bray Costen, assistant professor of otolaryngology at St. Louis' Washington University Medical School, discovered that when the back teeth are extracted or wear down the mandibular joints which hinge the lower jaw to the skull are pulled askew by the powerful muscles of the face, press abnormally upon facial nerves, cause facial neuralgia, headache, earache, burning tongue. Dr. Costen cures those pains by repositioning the jaws with caps over eroded molars, false...
...giant loudspeaker stood on the roof of a hangar at Mineola, L. I., last week, and radio and sound engineers trooped out to have a look, listen to its monstrous bray. Developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the apparatus resembled a big searchlight. When it and 18 others like it are mounted soon atop a 100-ft. tower, their combined blast will be the loudest sound ever produced...
Charlie has two good men for every position in the first boat, but expects to son a sharp competition for the number seven, oar, the weakest link at present. Phil Bray's graduation and Twining's failure to return from the Freshman boat leave it weak. At present Len Eliel and Boene Watson are the most eligible contestants...