Word: raye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. Longoria is at home both in the real world of technological utility and the dream world of Wellsian fantasy. He has devised some ingenious welding techniques, feathered his nest comfortably from his welding patents. He is also a persistent and well-publicized ballyhooer of the "death ray" machine he claims to have invented (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Says he, this machine can kill cats and dogs, bring down pigeons on the wing, at ranges up to four miles...
...long as he kept the nature of his lethal ray secret, it was hard for skeptical scientists to prove that Mr. Longoria was talking big through his hat. But last week he laid himself wide open by announcing: "The ray lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...
Another substitute, Ray Guild, paved the way for the last period tally by three successive runs which totalled 45 yards. Waldstein scored on a one-yard plunge, and Fisher again converted. Guild, a state record-holder in the 100-yard dash, who had made very little impression heretofore outside of the scrimmages, displayed a promising mixture of speed and deception in Saturday's game...
...brightest ray of hope is the observation that "as marks get worse, there is a definite progression towards fewer children." It means that the Princeton man--if he has any hope of survival--faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become...
Stanford's Ray Lyman Wilbur: "Unless we learn to boss our glands instead of allowing them to boss us, we shall inevitably commit suicide. . . . Your real job here at Stanford is to learn to run your glands with their various endocrines...