Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through safely was Mrs. Piccard's first concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...
...Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola, got up almost ten miles. So carried away was he that he made the astounding comparison of cosmic rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich Regener at Stuttgart had sent up sounding balloons to 20 miles, had demonstrated increasing cosmic ray intensity to that height, which no stratonaut since...
Scientists on the ground have measured wind speeds scores of miles up-by observing the drifting trails of meteors. Without benefit of balloonists Dr. Compton and others learned that cosmic ray intensity varies with latitude, and Dr. T. H. Johnson of the Bartol Foundation demonstrated that more rays come from the west than from the east. Hinting his disillusionment with manned balloons, Dr. Compton has begun a mountaintop and sounding-balloon survey. Dr. Millikan, in the current Physical Review, has kind words to say for the Settle-Fordney flight. In his article he reproduces a strip of film from...
...pyloric end where digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...
Ordinary x-ray pictures, taken after the patient has eaten a paste of barium sulphate, show only the outline of the stomach. A method of outlining all the rugae occurred to a few roentgenologists. notably to Dr. Aubrey Otis Hampton, 34, a sharp-nosed Texan who went to Boston to practice medicine. Last week he explained the method to other fellows of the American College of Surgeons (see p. 35) who crowded his lecture in Boston...