Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army, saying that the organization had resented the publicity of the case. She went to Florida, married a newspaperman who later divorced her because of her "unswerving devotion to evangelistic work." Shortly thereafter in San Francisco she married rich, polo-playing Clubman Ray Splivalo, whose former wife, a niece of Mrs. Claus A. Spreckels (sugar), had divorced him because of his "unswerving devotion to sport and convivial companions." As Director of Social Welfare, Mrs. Splivalo will have charge of orphans and other dependents upon the State, also of juvenile delinquency, old age pensions. Announcing her appointment, Governor Rolph said that...
...Said Ray Foote Purdy, chairman of the meeting: "We are unmobilized and the foe ... is insidious. ... It is called...
...found a more avid player than Life's President Clair Maxwell. His scores are more often in the 70's than in the 90's, but he knows how poorer players feel. Just as enthusiastic are his brothers-Lee, president of Crowell Publishing Co.; Ray G., advertising agent, and Lloyd, of Williams & Cunnyngham agency, Chicago. The four Brothers Maxwell have a standing challenge to any other foursome of one family, or any foursome of the publishing business. Life's Clair Maxwell has a strong personal opinion of the new ball. He calls it a cross between...
...James's work is not quite the sort which wins a Nobel Prize in physics nowadays. The Nobel tendency in recent years has been to reward workers with the sub-atomic-X-ray effects (Taman, Compton), wave mechanics (de Broglie), electron count (Millikan), atomic structure (Bohr), quantum hypothesis (Planck), forces (Einstein). Sir James has the mathematical baggage and creative imagination requisite for joining that group. But he applies himself to descriptions of the universe and its relatively minute stellar components. It was for that work that the Franklin Institute deemed him worthy of U. S. Physics' top medal...
This theory duplicates in large part the planetary theory of the late Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin and Forest Ray Moulton of the University of Chicago. Professor Moulton, now director of Utilities Power & Light Corp. (Chicago), some time ago flayed Sir James for not giving due credit to Chamberlin. Last week Sir James alluded to that attack by indicating that his and the Chamberlin-Moulton theories did differ. In what, his audience did not much care. They were there primarily to look at great men of science...