Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bright Lights. Charles Ray has attempted to come back. He has picked one of his old country cousin stories with a tattered straw hat on its head. Into his peaceful rural life comes a cabaret girl from Manhattan. The story is trivial and- truth be told-Mr. Ray is not so good as he used...
...MAN?A little sin, a good deal of sorrow and a ray of sunlight under the Manhattan Elevated...
From the seething midst of the thousand Societies, Associations and Leagues for the Prevention and Promulgation of Almost Everything, comes a ray of hope. "The Anti-Fanatic League" is the cheering legend signed to an anti-Methodist communication in the metropolitan papers...
...Like the rays of radium, the Millikan Rays, wherever they are present in any quantity, have a sterilizing effect fatal to life. X-rays are absorbed by half an inch of lead. The Millikan Ray will pierce six feet of lead; it is the product of elements uniting with an energy charge 50 times as great as that evolved by any reaction known to the earth...
...experiments on top of Pike's Peak with featherweight instruments buoyed in air by small balloons; at another time he probed 60 feet deep in a snow-fed lake under the brow of Mount Whitney. Since it would take 10,000,000 volts to reproduce the ray artificially, Dr. Millikan points out that there is little likelihood of his discovery being utilized for some time to come. The Academicians were interested...