Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brookline, Mass, is the country club where, in 1913, when he was 20, Francis Ouimet tied famed Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in his first U. S. Open championship, then beat them both in a momentous playoff. Francis Ouimet does a lot of his golfing at the Brookline club but it was for another momentous match against British golfers that he was there again last week. As U. S. Amateur Champion he had been made captain of the U. S. Walker Cup Team...
...soon as he made his readings of cosmic rays above Mexico, he dashed for a north-bound train. At Kansas City he said good-by to Mrs. Compton and Alan. They proceded to Chicago & home, he to Winnipeg. He wants to get to Chesterfield Inlet north of Churchill in time to note what the solar eclipse does to cosmic rays near the North Magnetic Pole. In his dash Professor Compton hastened past the U. S. Aerological Station at Ellendale, N. D. Thereby he just missed conjunction with his fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology...
Three investigators, widely separated, last week reported on an invisible light ray which seems to be the intimate tool of death...
...University of California Professor W. W. Lepeschkin took living yeast cells into a pitch dark room and killed them. In dying they gave off a short, x-ray-like radiation which affected some silver bromide (ray-testing compound) in the room...
...Hutchinson, 41, novelist (Great Waters, Thy Dark Freight), sister of Novelist Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes); in London. Died. James C. Lawrence, 42, dean of administration at University of Minnesota, member of President Hoover's first Unemployment Relief Committee; by inhaling carbon monoxide; in Minneapolis. Died. Ray Austin Graham, 45, treasurer of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., youngest of the three Graham brothers who acquired Paige Motor Co. in 1927; by drowning himself; in Chatham, Ont. His brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat in Morristown, N. J. after...