Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millikan believes that the Universe is constantly regenerating itself. His chief evidence is the cosmic ray, most penetrating known. The energy which this ray carries, he figures, is just the amount which would be released when four atoms of hydrogen, the primeval element, combined to form one helium atom...
...before Dr. Michelson died, Dr. Millikan and Sir James joined in a comparative exposition at California Institute of Technology. Sir James's rebuttal to Dr. Millikan's synthesis argument was that as each proton pops away from the core of an exploding atom it generates a cosmic ray. Dr. Millikan agreed that this reasoning might be correct. Nonetheless, he held tenaciously to his own hypothesis...
Ladies' Man (Paramount). Rupert Hughes got a fancy price for screen rights to his novel, serialized in Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan, but this little story might just as easily have been adapted from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis...
...Surgically, sterilization is simple. In males it is achieved by cutting the spermatic cord, in females by cutting the Fallopian tubes. Frequently X-ray is used to atrophy the ovaries...
...York Athletic Club water polo (new style) team, principally consisting of the Ruddy boys (Ray, onetime famed Columbia swimmer, and his cousin Steve) each of whom scored two goals: the National Water Polo championship, beating the defending champions, the Illinois Athletic Club, 5 to 4 in an overtime game...