Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working with "coincidence counters" last year, the University of Padova's Professor Bruno Rossi, foremost of Italy's cosmic ray researchers, thought he had snared in his apparatus the trace of a radiation that came neither from outer space nor from earth's radioactive substances. It seemed to Professor Rossi that in darting through sheets of metal the primary cosmic rays gave birth to a secondary radiation of electric particles. Two other physicists got on the scent, found that the secondary particles were generated in the form of showers-like spray from the splash of passing cosmic...
...Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
Osteopathic Practice. Expounded Dr. Ray G. Hulburt, editor of A. O. A. publications: "The osteopathic physician holds that it is a part of his duty to find and remove various disease causes, including bad environment or faulty habits. He uses antiseptics when the skin or mucous membrane is broken or cut to admit infection, but for the great mass of disease germs which invade the body and constitute infections, he believes that if the body machine is in proper adjustment, it will itself make all the remedies it needs. When necessary the osteopathic practitioner uses anesthetics and surgery...
Forrest R. Snyder, O. Cousens, S. W. Crocker, Elliott W. Robbins, James D. Reiher, Harriet Cooms, Joan Stoddard, J. P. Reisman, Eleanor Packard, William Ray, G. Louise, Robert H. Walker, Arky deRosset, H. G. White, A. P. Felton, Catherine E. Jodoin, J. McClellan Laughin, Marguerite Walsh, Kenneth G. Cloby, D. Armstrong, Barbara Cobb, Barbara Cox, Robert' A. Sard, Henry P. Walker, Jr., John Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla...
...Raymond Philip Dougherty, 55, professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, curator of Sterling Memorial Museum's Babylonian Collection; by his own hand (hanging); near his home in Hamden, Conn. In April he had suffered a nervous breakdown. Died. Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer, 58, famed x-ray pioneer, professor of roentgenology at Johns Hopkins University; of long-standing necrosis caused by x-ray burns; in Catonsville, Md. He began his experiments before the advent of modern protective devices, by 1909 had lost an eye, four fingers. Surgeons had to keep whittling at his ravaged body, performed 73 operations...