Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whipped off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, put on a surgeon's white robe. A quick deft incision and a few minutes later the tall thin man had excised the bus manager's ruptured appendix. Such was the first operation performed by tall, thin Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, brother of the Constitution sponsor (see p.11), since he became President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior...
...Londos: a wrestling bout in which he successfully defended his heavyweight championship against Ray Steele, in Manhattan...
...Navy boat passed Washington at the start of the last mile and Coxswain Burke told his sweating men to row, row, row after that Navy shell. The last half mile was a wildly exciting match between the two, with Washington struggling to keep up with Cornell. The Navy stroke, Ray Hunter, could see both boats laboring along behind him. When Cornell began to gain he sent the Navy stroke up to 40 and kept it smooth across the finish, which he crossed to the absurdly disconsolate hooting of a destroyer's fog horn. Cornell was only a length behind, Washington...
Alumni who believe that Stanford University suffers while its president, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, carries on as U. S. Secretary of the Interior, waited anxiously last week as Stanford's Board of Trustees held its meeting in San Francisco. Few were surprised but many were increasingly dissatisfied when the Board, after what was called "considerable discussion," announced "that at the request of the President of the United States, and in recognition of the outstanding importance to the nation of the continuation to effective completion of the services of Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, his leave be extended...
...Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary...