Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he wishes to compute the different amounts of cosmic ray energy at a great variety of latitudes in both hemispheres of the earth, Dr. Millikan chose India, Australia and Tasmania for his latest researches...
Humorist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, 63, lying ill of an abused stomach in a San Francisco hospital, sat up in bed ("like a bullfrog in a pan of milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer...
...Dorothy (Judy Garland) gets blown away in a twister from her home in Kansas, finds herself in the Technicolor land of Oz. Homesick, she goes in search of the Wizard of Oz to ask him how to get back to Kansas. Along the way she meets a Straw Man (Ray Bolger), a Tin Woodman (Jack Haley), a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr). They too want to see the Wizard. The Straw Man seeks a brain, the Woodman a heart, the Cowardly Lion, courage...
...Chicago, goat-whiskered little William Ten Eyck Ensign, who two years ago had persuaded Chicago architects that he had vast financial backing, had inveigled them into drawing up preliminary plans for a $50,000,000 skyscraper, announced that he had invented: 1) a death ray, 2) a new bearing metal called "Oman" that requires no greasing, 3) a wingless, propellerless airplane that uses water for fuel, can fly 1,300 miles an hour. Inventor Ensign said he would complete his first plane next fall, fly around the world in a day. He then plans to make a more leisurely trip...
...American Weekly, and onetime Wisconsin State Senator Roger Sherman Hoar (penname: Ralph Milne Farley). Pay is 1? to 4? a word. Many a well-known author who commands higher rates in slick-paper magazines writes these stories for fun. But writers as well as readers take their predictions seriously. Ray Cummings, a veteran pseudo-fictioneer who once was Thomas Edison's secretary, claims to have originated in his stories the word Newscaster and the phrase The World of Tomorrow. Says he: "It is astonishing how many things come true." Chief themes of scientifiction are rocket trips by earth-dwellers...