Word: raye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nuclear disintegration as brought about by the action of cosmic rays on dense materials has been the subject of long research at the New Research Laboratory. One of the purposes of the experiments is to determine the size of the nucleus of an atom of any particular substance. In the course of their investigation the scientists also hope to find out if there are any other cosmic ray particles in addition to high-speed electrons...
...moment I can only commit myself on one point-it is a selachian [shark and ray family]. ... As for the individual characteristics of the monster, it is possible we are in the presence of an unknown species. C'est epatant...
...breathing has been restored, the poison cleansed from his blood. For three years U. S. Public Health Service and Bureau of Mines researchers have sought, through experiments on cats & dogs, to discover the cause of and remedy for such failures in resuscitation. They have found, reported Dr. Royd Ray Sayer of the U. S. P. H. S., that both carbon monoxide poisoning and lack of oxygen not only stop respiration but also injure brain cells and the central nervous system. Insufficient, therefore, is ordinary oxygen resuscitation. Victims must also have pressure on their brains eased by catharsis, spine punctures...
...opportunities which were presented. On the other hand, Yale capitalized practically all its chances, and certainly received the breaks for the evening. Play was hard and fast during the entire contest, while both teams displayed for the most part as excellent brand of hockey. During the first period especially, Ray Townshend in the Yale net was called upon to make many spectacular saves as the Crimson club intermittently put on the foil pressure of a five-man offensive. Captain Paul deGive of Harvard came through with his usual stellar type of goal tending...
...Author. Ray Coryton Hutchinson's first novel (The Answering Glory) made little impression on England. The Unforgotten Prisoner, his second, was chosen by the English Book Society. Twenty-seven-year-old Author Hutchinson has a job with the English advertising firm of J. & B. Colman, leans away from London literati. Before that he was an Oxonian but no esthete, no scholar. Though Author Hutchinson is no old soldier (he was too young to fight in the World War), his deeply-felt picture of post-War chaos will be classed with Erich Maria Remarque's The Road Back...