Word: raye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, assistant director of the research laboratory of the General Electric Co., told of developing a portable X-ray machine, weighing only 30 lb., which may be used in finding pipe and electrical connections in floors, examining jewels, finding contraband in luggage...
...champion these two years, was suddenly ousted by an "unknown," one Larry Nabholtz, of Lima, Ohio. Nabholtz nabbed "the Grinning Runt" at the 35th green. Bobby Cruickshank, of Shacka-maxon, N. J., shot 69 and 71 in his second round match, yet he, too, was ousted-by Ray Derr of the Lulu Temple Club, Philadelphia, after 37 terrific holes. Thereafter surprises ceased. Sleek, smiling "Walto" Hagen, of Manhattan, British open champion, and "Long Jim" Barnes of Pelham, N. Y., cruised steadily into the finals. "Walto," as in 1921, then cruised steadily past "Long Jim" to the title...
...sugar, has a receipt: Make a little formaldehyde out of carbon dioxide and water, expose it to intensely active ultraviolet light, and you have sugar. Genuine glucose has been made 'by this process, but before such can become a breakfast-table commodity the proper wavelength of the violet ray must be ascertained. It is roughly gauged at from 200 to 220 millimicrons.- If all the land were bread and cheese, and all the sea were ink, what would we do for gasoline? This was the general proposition discussed by T. A. Boyd and C. M. Larson, Manhattan scientist. "Petroleum...
...Morgan Taylor, of Grinnell College, la., evoked plaudits with his low-hurdling. Joie Ray, onetime champion miler, straggled in the ruck in his race. The Illinois A. C, by assiduously piling up second and third places, won the National team title with 40 points; New York A. C, 33; Newark A. C, 31; Boston A. A., 20. Newark A. C. took the National junior title...
...Homeric (White Star)-H. Grindell-Matthews, death ray inventor; J. Ogden Armour, Chicago meat packer...