Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar a piece. He got some orders for sport cartoons in Chicago papers and worked his way onto the staff of the Chicago American, and later of the Tribune. He illustrated the Sunday "feature" pages, made borders, designed "layouts." In his spare time he studied. In 1915 Editor Ray Long of the Red Book gave him a manuscript to illustrate. He went to Manhattan, entered the Art Students' League. His fame grew. His prices went up. He drew advertisements, married, rented a studio on West 57th St. with two skylights. For relaxation he played the victrola and practiced...
...Agent General for Reparations, economic "Emperor of Europe," aged 34: "I rarely dance. But my wife was declared last week at an elite and informal dancing contest in Berlin the best Charleston dancer present. Despatches rumored my vexation at the alleged ribald shout of a U. S. youth: 'Ray for you, Mrs. Gilbert! I'd like t' see y' "Black Bottom...
Professor William Duane '93. Research Fellow in Physics, a noted Roentgen ray expert, is at present attempting to determine the structure of the atom by means of X-ray spectra. A current of tremendous voliage is projected into a Roentgen tube arranged in such a way that the X-ray generated will be passed through a diamond prism. The resulting spectrum is caught on a photographic plate...
Sinces the X-ray is composed of a stream of atoms, the spectrum may be used to find the composition of the individual atom by the Fraunhofer method...
...thing he could be certain: the Cathode Ray would never be a war weapon unless whole armies were "marched right into it," for once outside their vacuum birthplace, the hurtling electrons all hit something soon and got slowed up; within a space of three feet when 350,000 volts were used; within five feet (calculated) if two million volts were used...