Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Even without Mohler, U. S. C. had a team which contained four Ail-American prospects: Captain and Left Tackle Raymond C. ("Tay") Brown, who makes a specialty of blocking punts; Right Tackle Ernie Smith, who has a bald head, huge paws and a talent for place-kicks; Ray Sparling, left-end, and at the other end of the line Ford Palmer who caught the two passes that enabled U. S. C. to beat Stanford last fortnight...
Honored. Mrs. Elias Compton, by an LL. D. from Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams...
...other cheerleaders who began a fortnight's discussion of tumors at the New York Academy of Medicine last week-that cancer is curable if recognized very soon after its first development in the body. Then it can very often be eradicated by knife (steel or electric), X-ray or radium. Declared Dr. Franklin H. Martin, director-general of the College of Surgeons and organizer of their cancer symposium: "If all cases of cancer could be diagnosed early and treated promptly in their incipiency, the annual death rate from the disease, now recorded...
...shoulder of butchered lamb, preserved last week in the cooler of the Wisconsin Dairy & Food Division at Madison, testifies for this miracle. The meat glows with a yellowish light. The bones appear outlined as in an X-ray film. State Chemist Harry Klueter last week said the phosphorescence was due to bacteria in the meat...
...eyes ("hypnotism, nothing more") and Edmund Lowe's affable face works hard trying to look mystical. Tear-gas is used to make his eyes impotent and give Villain Lugosi a chance to prolong the picture. Resurrected from the bottom of the Nile. Lowe out-eyes Lugosi and the death-ray explodes, leaving civilization untoasted...