Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the New York World-Telegram's energetic Ray Tucker sought out Idaho's Senator Borah at Boise, asked him his solution of this enormous problem. The Borah remedy: Let insurance companies and other large holders of the land banks' mortgage bonds voluntarily scale down farm indebtedness to a point where it can be paid. Said Senator Borah...
...work at Hoover Dam the party had the cooperation of the Secretary of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and of the Bureau of Reclamation, as well as of the company building...
...diocese. Monsignor McFadden was consecrated auxiliary bishop by Bishop Schrembs, with Bishops Michael James Gallagher of Detroit and Thomas Charles O'Reilly of Scranton as assistants. Afterwards there was public dining and speaking, all of it in the proud, happy vein of Cleveland's Mayor Ray T. Miller who told 10,000 in Public Hall that "the consecration made history that Clevelanders are proud...
...Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's Nobel Laureate, speeding into the far north after a summer of climbing mountains ibex-wise, reached a point on Hudson Bay only 350 mi. from the North Magnetic Pole in time to take cosmic ray readings during the solar eclipse. His mountain-top observations in many latitudes had led him to suspect that cosmic rays are not pulsations from outer space, as Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks, but streams of electrons probably originating in Earth's atmosphere. The nearer the Equator, he observed, the less was the rays' intensity...
...Winnipeg when he heard about his friendly rival's telegram. From Winnipeg, where he may encounter Dr. Compton, he will fly with an electroscope to as close to the North Magnetic Pole as Royal Canadian Air Corps planes can carry him. There he will make his own cosmic ray readings, then soar eagle-wise southwards to Texas, getting U. S. Army planes after he crosses the border, making electroscopic observations all along...