Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Beach, Long Island. The road lies through the city and over a bridge and through a suburban district crowded with automobiles, trucks, delivery wagons, boys on bicycles, people walking, busses, trolley-cars, and traffic cops. Last week 30 marathoners ran a race along this road and Joie Ray won it. His time was within two minutes of the Olympic record for 26 miles made on a course that had no traffic...
...Military Attache at London; Mrs. John C. MacArthur, wife of the Assistant Military Attache; Mrs. Hugh Dewitt Butler, wife of the Assistant Commercial Attache; Mrs. Wainwright Abbott, wife of the Second Secretary of the American Legation at Dublin; and Miss Maude Hunnewell of Boston, fiancee of Counselor Ray Atherton of the U. S. Embassy at London...
Died. Dr. C. Edmund Kells, famed dentist, first to use X-ray in his work; by suicide; in New Orleans. Experiments with X-ray had caused an arm infection which 27 operations had not cured...
More Matter. The physicists are creeping up on the origin of matter. Dr. Robert Andrew Millikan of the California Institute of Technology, pursuing his study of the cosmic ray, has illuminated new chapters in the celestial life of the hydrogen atom. Those infinitely tiny but infinitely active particles not only leap at each other explosively to form helium, but also by special jumps unite to form oxygen and nitrogen. The exact nature of the jump is not yet fully understood, but each different jump shoots off its own private signal, a ray of definite power...
Changing the Species.-Some day eyes, complexions, stature, nose lengths may be changed by radiation. Professor Hermann Joseph Muller, famed biologist of the University of Texas, has played the X-ray on fruit flies making them produce strange, outlandish offspring. The pedigreed fruit flies (whose hereditary characteristics had been known for generations) suddenly brought forth anomalies with curiously colored eyes, unreasonable wings, radically bobbed hair antennae. New species came into existence, the special marks of the X-ray were transmitted down the generations. Biologist Muller tried the effect of other agents on the germ plasm. Treatment with lead, arsenic, poisons...