Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married Superintendent T. R. Barnum of Cleveland Quarries. Sister Nell became a buyer for Cleveland's Halle Bros, department store, continued to live in Berea with Mother Moley. Brother Jim, amiable and easygoing, was proprietor of the Moley Tire Shop in Berea until business grew bad. Then Brother Ray got him a CWA job in Washington. But Brother Jim disliked the bustle of the capital, pined to get back to Berea and a good job. Early this month Brother Ray fixed things up for him and last week Brother Jim was Berea's postmaster...
...Century of Progress exhibit of the Chicago Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Hollis Elmer Potter, Chicago x-ray specialist, last week hung the first full-length, full-size, one-piece x-ray photograph of the complete human body ever put on display (see cut). X-ray technicians heretofore have made composite pictures of the whole body. The Chicago exhibit was the result of a single, one-second exposure to x-rays...
Nucleus of the idea is a death ray ? a concentrated beam of sub-microscopic particles flying at velocities approaching that of light. The beam, according to Tesla, would drop an army in its tracks, bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by means of: 1) a device to nullify the impeding effect of the atmosphere on the particles; 2) a method for setting up a high potential; 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000,000 volts; 4) creation of "a tremendous electrical repelling force." Two of these are complete...
...death ray, always exciting to laymen, is an old familiar to scientists. After the interplanetary "spaceship," it is probably the most popular gadget in pseudo-scientific fiction. Even in Herbert George Wells's shrewdly written War of the Worlds (1898), the first act of arriving Martians is to spray spectators with a death beam. In real life death rays have been announced time & again, but never convincingly demonstrated. When one Harry Grinnell-Matthews loudly announced a death ray some years ago in England, Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins said he would stand 65 ft. from the apparatus...
Died. Wilbur Morris Stine, 70, physicist, poet, educator; of apoplexy; at Penfield, Pa. Dr. Stine claimed that he was first (1892) to get an x-ray shadow picture, the first (1897) to suggest the remedial use of x-rays...