Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Shawnee, 30-year-old Paul Runyan lived up to his reputation. First he eliminated Levi Lynch. Then he put out Tony Manero, Ray Mangrum, Horton Smith and Henry Picard, four of the game's master shotmakers. Facing him in the final was the biggest titan of them all, young Sam Snead, leading money-winning pro of the year and quite a bugaboo himself. Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs had reached the final 23 strokes under par (for 165 holes), and was 2-to-1 favorite...
...suspected by Anderson and his co-workers in 1934, and later discovered almost simultaneously by him and Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Stevenson of Harvard. These queer little particles appear to originate about ten miles above the earth's surface as a result of collisions between primary cosmic ray particles and air atoms. Calculations of their mass have yielded figures from 110 to 400 times the weight of an ordinary electron...
Since then Dr. Compton, who has seven observation stations in his far-flung cosmic ray empire, has checked up on the variation. Another cosmic ray bigwig, Professor Manuel Sandoval Vallarta of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calculated what it should be theoretically, after discounting the effect of the magnetic field of the sun. On making this correction, the observed variation was practically nil. Hence, Dr. Compton now prefers to believe that the cosmic rays come from within, not without, the Milky Way-that they whiz around inside it like rats in a trap, prisoned there by the gigantic magnetic field...
This theory - which Dr. Compton admitted last week is only tentative - nevertheless bumps into the views of Belgium's Abbé Georges Lemaitre, proponent of the "Exploding Universe." Abbe Lemaitre believes the cosmic rays are fragments of a universal explosion which took place bil lions of years ago, and therefore that the rays should fill all space more or less uniformly. This is only one of several hypotheses advanced to account for the rays' origin. Dr. Millikan used to believe they were liberated in interstellar space during the coalescence of light elements into heavier ones. Dr. Fritz Zwicky...