Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ray photographs revealed that the heart of Paavo Nurmi, Finnish distance runner, is three times normal size- which, in an ordinary person, would indicate grave disease. The Nurmi heart requires so much room to work in that it makes a quarter turn each time the diaphragm pushes up in respiration...
...Larger use of the X-ray by dentistry and more definite study of dental decay and pyorrhea as manifestations of something going wrong elsewhere in the body are necessary to real progress in the profession. Dental decay and pyorrhea are both preventable diseases and successful treatment of them is dependent on the dentist's assuming a medical as well as a dental attitude in treating his patient...
Many say that Professor Jesse W. M. DuMond of California Institute of Technology is Science's best Mechanic. Fortnight ago international physicists at Rome inspected his multiple crystal spectrometer. Last week at Pasadena the public viewed his stereofluoroscope X-ray device...
...great difficulty in studying X-ray pictures is that, like ordinary photographs, they show no depth. Stereoscopes do indicate depth, by use of two photographs taken from slightly different angles (TIME, Oct. 19). Professor DuMond gets similar effects by using two close-set X-ray tubes and viewing through an appropriate attachment the slightly different shadows each reveals...
...Governor" Cyr countered on Tuesday by telegraphing to Adjutant General Ray Fleming in New Orleans an order to disband the troops. He signed himself "Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard." The order was ignored; Adjutant General Fleming was reported to be in Atlanta. Captain W. J. B. Hawthorne of the Baton Rouge troops said the movement was merely a "test," explained that Tuesday was drill night anyhow...