Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Ray Long of Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan magazine gave a dinner at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan for Boris Pilnyak, visiting Russian novelist (The Naked Year). Sinclair Lewis was to deliver the speech of welcome. But in response to Host Long's introduction Novelist Lewis drawled: "I am very happy to meet Mr. Pilnyak. But I do not care to speak in the presence of one man who has plagiarized 3,000 words from my wife's book on Russia. Nor do I care to talk before two sage critics who have lamented the action of the Nobel committee...
Sued. Elsie French and Anne Colby* ("X-Ray Twins") Vanderbilt, month-old daughters of William Henry Vanderbilt and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; along with 24 of their kin, all heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died : by the U. S. Government; for $800,000 in profits, back taxes and interest from the sale in 1927 of the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Valued at $3,000,000, it was sold for $7,100,000 which reverts to the heirs at the death of 86-year-old Mrs. Alice Gwynne ("The Dowager Mrs.") Vanderbilt. The Government regards the sale...
...following men have been chosen as backs: Philips Finlay '31, B. A. Nichols '34, M. M. Slack '32, R. B. Bates '33, J. H. Rowell '31, A. W. Sherman '34, B. D. Smith '34, J. M. Ossorio '33, G. P. Earling '34, G. E. Ray '32, J. E. Beaument...
...April 1930 the Patent Office refused them the patent. But Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, asked the Patent Office to handle the matter with special expedition. On July 1, 1930 Drs. Coffey & Humber resubmitted their patent application, had it granted the next day. This vexed Professor John Morse Rehfisch of Stanford University School of Medicine (Dr. Wilbur is president of Stanford University in absentia, Herbert Hoover a trustee). In sarcastic comment to the American Medical Association Dr. Rehfisch called the patent grant "an example of speed and efficiency which is a true tribute to the Great Engineer...
...tubes which Dr. Slack seals so thinly are Lenard Ray tubes, invented by learned Professor Philipp Lenard of the University of Heidelberg, 1905 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Lenard's tube, devised in the 1890's when modern physics was germinating, projects cathode rays through a thin aluminum or gold window. It requires a minimum of 70,000 volts to fire those rays through the metal windows. That voltage is expensive and difficult to handle...