Word: radium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truncated cone. It contains a chapter on her American visit of 1921, and an illuminating introduction by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, former editor of The Delineator, who conceived and engineered Mme. Curie's trip and the raising by American women of $100,000 to purchase a gram of radium to be presented (by President Harding) to Mme. Curie for her personal...
...details of the years 1897-1906 in which radium was discovered form a saga of heroism. Not long after her marriage in 1895, Marie Curie, became interested in the experiments of Henri Becquerel on the salts of the rare metal, uranium. He had found that they emitted certain penetrating rays. Marie Curie took up this work, found that another element, thorium, behaved similarly, and that certain complex minerals also showed radioactivity, which was not, however, proportionate to the quantities of uranium or thorium in them. Pierre Curie, whose main researches up to that time had been on the physics...
...with uranium this may be a process of five billion years, the changes are imperceptible. At Kelly Field, Tex., Dr. Millikan sent up kites, sometimes as high as ten miles, with automatic machines attached which detected rays more powerful even than the X-rays or the "gamma" rays of radium. These rays did not come from the sun, because they were active night and day. Apparently they came from space, and may be the exciting cause of all radioactivity...
Good sets and fine lighting effects were the outstanding features of "The Dancing Girl" at the Shubert Monday night. The widely-advertised living curtain, which bids fair to become a fixture of all of this season's revues, much as the radium gowns of last winter's musical comedies, was a horrible disappointment. It presented what might have been five bathing beauties in gold one-pieces. Or the five most beautiful girls who have appeared in the Police Gazette this summer. Possibly they were certain muses: the Winter Garden is an authority on muses. Anyway, the curtain lasted only...
Benjamin Irish, tenant farmer, of Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England. Owns very few horses, only two of any previous account, Radium and Periosteum. Bought Papyrus in 1921 for $17,500. Ill health prevents his attendance at Belmont...