Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Fifteen rounds in Madison Square Garden for the world's welterweight championship between Champion Marty Servo and Challenger Ray ("Sugar") Robinson...
...with little or no money in the bank. Wherefore he decided-definitely, he said-to give up public life and work for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at $30,000 a year, with prospects of becoming president of the company at $75,000. But people wondered: could Ray Baldwin really bring himself to give it all up-a prospective seat in the U.S. Senate and further opportunities to serve his country in a great period of history...
...other-Baldwin or Luce-would have to run for the Senate. They were the two top Republican votegetters in Connecticut. Last week Ray Baldwin and Clare Luce sat down to find out who meant what most. Result: Governor Baldwin agreed to give up the money and run for the Senate...
...Gregory Zilboorg, Manhattan psychiatrist to the gentry (e.g., Marshall Field III, Ralph McAllister Ingersoll), sometime translator (He Who Gets Slapped), was about to be sued for divorce after nearly 27 years. In Reno to do it, wife Ray explained simply: "People change . . . he's changed...
Stealthy Neutrons. Most dangerous of all are the neutrons, which can wander almost at will through most kinds of matter. When they hit an atom's nucleus, they produce a dangerous gamma ray and lose a little of their speed. Eventually they are "captured," but the nucleus which captures them is apt to be unstable. Sooner or later it may disintegrate with another burst of rays, alpha, beta or gamma. Some elements, riddled with neutrons, quiet down in minutes or hours. Others radiate thousands of years...