Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concealed excitement. Weeks before, the committee on awards had notified Dr. William David Coolidge, assistant research director of the General Electric Co., that he was this year's recipient of the Howard N. Potts gold medal, in recognition of his now universally used invention, the Coolidge X-ray tube. And Dr. Coolidge had replied, saying that he would present himself for the reward, and at the same time submit a demonstration called: "A Method of Producing High Voltage Cathode Rays Outside the Generating Tube...
...electro-physicists this title was a great deal more significant than it would have sounded to laymen. It meant that Dr. Coolidge-the man who, besides his X-ray work, first learned to make brittle tungsten ductile and so suitable for electric light bulbs ("Mazda") of low price and long life-that this man of results had been exploring a field discovered 50 years ago by Sir William Crookes of England and only faintly understood ever since...
Pliny Jewell of Coffin and Burr Inc., Boston, was chosen association president to succeed Ray Morris of Brown Brothers & Co., Manhattan...
...Bennett's medium is not the X-ray, which penetrates its subject and discoveds unguessed-at causes, nor is it the telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders...
Tufts had a ten point margin over Bates at the end of the game. Browne and Ray were the outstanding players for Tufts, the former scoring on a 12 yard end run after a long march down the field. Fitzgerald kicked a field goal early in the first period...