Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meter run easily, with Penn's Venzke second. In the 800-meter race, he started his sprint late, suddenly found himself blocked by a line of runners across the track, wove through the field like a football player to beat Manhattan's Bill Ray by inches...
...late President James Douglas of Phelps Dodge Corp. gave altogether $600,000 and 3½ gms. of radium. Edward Stephen Harkness gave $250,000 to buy 4 gms. more. Memorial today has 81 gms., largest supply in the U. S. General Electric has loaned a 700,000-volt x-ray machine whose radiations approximate radium's. The hospital has two 200,000-volt x-ray machines and several smaller ones. An x-ray unit invented by the late Dr. Arthur C. Heublein, which allows the entire body to be flooded by x-rays for long periods, the hospital stopped...
Jenny Hanivers are made from the dried carcasses of small rays and skates. In natural state the underside of a ray's head slightly resembles a monstrous human face with nostrils that seem to be eyes and a wide, toothed mouth. The human effect is heightened when beads are inserted in the nostrils and the tissue artfully mutilated. The pectoral fins can be cut away from the head and moulded into a headdress resembling a bishop's mitre. The ventral fins can be distorted to resemble feet. Neither Dr. Gudger nor an Australian colleague investigating the same subject...
...Ray of Hope...
...activity and smothers other vital processes. The acute form of the disease is explosive. Policemen cells apparently on regular duty suddenly become riotous. Lymph and marrow overwork furiously. Acute cases die within three months whereas the chronic forms last from six months to four or five years. Sunlight, x-ray treatments, arsenic dosage may prolong the leucemic's life. Cause of the disease is undetermined. Some physicians think that it is the result of a tumor in the marrow. Leucemia is by no means rare. During 1932 it took 2,794 lives in the U. S. That was more...