Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Studenten has 1,500 members certified victims of Nazism. . . . These students now lacking resources are forced to earn livelihood on the side irrespective of extreme malnutrition and illnesses contracted during long confinement camps. . . . Many valuable students lacking physical strength to continue face giving up studies. Anticipated Harvard action first ray of hope...
Most automatic fire alarms are set off by a fire's heat ; by then the fire is usually blazing merrily. A Socony-Vacuum physicist named Paul B. Weisz thought he could do better. Last week, in Electronics magazine, he announced an ingenious ray-catching tube so sensitive that it can detect a match flame at 60 feet in broad daylight. The basic idea of Weisz's gadget is the detection of minute quantities of ultra violet radiation. In the earth's absorbent atmosphere most natural and electric light rays, except clear sunlight, contain almost no radiation...
...problems. Bolivia's once-rich tin mines now produced only medium-grade ores. The mass of the coca-chewing Indian population was illiterate, and Bolivia's leaders had so far shown neither the vision nor energy to transform them into efficient producers and prospective consumers. One thin ray of hope: a U.S.-financed highway that would join the dry, food-scarce plateau with the verdant eastern plains, perhaps integrate the country's economy...
...human proton-buster's problem: how to make a machine that approaches the power of a cosmic ray bullet. The most powerful machine in existence (General Electric's betatron) develops 100 million electron volts. Physicists now aim at one billion volts. The big news at Berkeley: they are getting warm...
...Died. Ray Stannard Baker, 76, author, essayist and journalist, friend and official biographer of Woodrow Wilson and one of the last of the "muckrakers" (others: Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell), who flourished on the late great McClure's magazine at the turn of the century; in Amherst, Mass. Under the pen name of David Grayson, Baker wrote nine popular volumes of philosophical essays about nature and people (Adventures in Contentment, The Countryman's Year); under his own name 27 volumes about political, social and economic problems and biography. His greatest and Pulitzer Prize work: Woodrow Wilson-Life...