Word: cosmical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the fourth grade and thus had no scientific prejudices. It was obvious to him that cosmic rays would clean static out of the human system and thus end all ills...
...took him only two years to work out his method of extracting cosmic rays from outer space. In 1912 he built a cosmic aerial, a cosmic booster box and a small cosmic rectifier. Jubilantly he moved to Long Beach, Calif., to await recognition...
...quacks with whom he would not stoop to compete. It was not until last spring, when he was 61 years old, that success finally came. Hundreds of people suddenly began turning up at his frame house to have their static removed and to chew on wheat kernels soaked in cosmic rays...
...always get in touch with him. Its walls are lined with yards of scientific books and papers, and its closets are packed less with clothes than with new products and gadgets-fabrics made from glass, steaks and biscuits made from yeast, three-dimensional photographs in full color, a portable cosmic ray detector, portraits painted in fluorescent paints that can be seen only in the dark. (One of his prized possessions is a Krazy Kat cartoon -"Why is somebody always trying to smash the poor I'll adam...
Shouts & Echoes. The basic secret of radar is that short radio waves behave very much like light. In the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, which ranges from the extremely short cosmic rays (trillionths of an inch) and gamma rays (which are released in an atomic bomb) to extremely long electric power waves (6,000 miles), radio and light waves are almost next-door neighbors, though light waves are much shorter than radio...