Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London a man came out on the stage of the Hippodrome Theatre, said that Ray Atherton, U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in whose hands rests the conduct of the Embassy now that Charles Gates Dawes has resigned as Ambassador, was urgently wanted on the telephone. War-wary Britons in the audience suddenly lost interest in the show. The message, it turned out, was from the Embassy, which wanted to be sure of the whereabouts of Mr. Atherton in case of an emergency...
There is a very powerful, very penetrating ray which reaches earth from space. Dr. Millikan recognized this ray ten years ago and called it the cosmic ray. He found that it penetrated 50 ft. of lead, 200 ft. of water. Last year Professor Auguste Piccard, cruising into the stratosphere ten miles above earth, found evidence of the same ray (TIME, June 8). Also last year Professor Arthur Holly Compton found traces of them atop the Rocky Mountains and the Alps...
While Professor Compton is having a high time abroad, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society and director of Philadelphia's Bartol Research Foundation, will take to the top of Mount Washington or Pike's Peak a cosmic ray "telescope" whose construction he revealed last week. It consists of a lead cylinder. At each end is a hollow steel sphere filled with nitrogen compressed
...times the weight of air at sea level. Cosmic rays ionize the imprisoned nitrogen. If the telescope is pointed at a source of the rays the gas in one sphere should be ionized less than the gas in the other. If the cylinder is swung athwart the ray, ionization should be equal in both spheres. Dr. Swann plans to swing his "telescope" to and fro until he can judge whether atoms are dying in the stars (Jeans) or are aborning between the stars (Millikan...
...Buchmanism" to a dubious press), The Groups held large house parties in Cape Town. South Africa two years ago and in Oxford last summer. In Manhattan, The Groups influence emanates from Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church. Their activities?personal evangelism, weekly meetings in the parish house?are led by Rev. Ray Foote Purdy, onetime Princeton Y. M. C. A. secretary, and Calvary's Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., who gave a demonstration of "primitive Christian practice" for the bishops of the 50th-triennial Episcopal convention in Denver last autumn (TIME, Sept...