Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural instincts a scientist, however, President Little did not give up his research. With Professor W. T. Bovie of the Harvard Medical School, he experimented with the application of ultra-violet rays to plant and animal diseases. With the aid of fused quartz produced by Edward R. Berry of the Lynn General Electric Company, results were produced and ultra-violet rays were pronounced valuable in the curing of rickets in children. President Little recently called the X-ray harmful to the human body, after he had experimented extensively with its effects on mice...
...major sports are now quartered on the second floor; the track teams, both University and Freshman are again in the east wing of the building, while the football teams, University, Seconds, and Freshman, share the rest of the second floor with the doctor's office, the new X-ray room, and the rubbing room. The last three are centrally located at the head of the main stairway...
...life-cycle of the minute organism that causes cancer, but recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE). Already pictures had been made of bodies one 250-thousandth of an inch in diameter (one-third the size of any of the microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist of Jermyn St., London...
...Manhattan, one William Arthur Ray, Negro, foamed at the mouth, smacked one Julia Green, Negress, on the jaw, was smacked in return, Mr. Ray curled back his thick lips, sank 'his lupine teeth into the hand that had smacked him. Doctors injected Negress Green with the Pasteur hydrophobia serum, placed Biter Ray under the observation system usually reserved for mad dogs...
...Last year (TIME, Apr. 21, 1924), Inventor H. Grindell-Matthews of England announced a "death ray," a principle alleged to stop airplane or other engines at great heights, to ignite airplanes' wing fabric if the motor was protected by insulation. The Matthews "ray" would kill or disable infantry and its inventor said: "In the near future, machine guns will be found only in museums...