Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest week for nuclear physics since the Smyth Report came out. Scientists of the General Electric Co.' announced that their mighty betatron, which generates 100 million-volt X rays, had shattered not only atoms but also attacked the sub-atomic particles themselves. Bombarding neutrons and protons with their powerful X ray, the G.E. men had produced mesons*-particles whose mass is partway between a proton and an electron...
...column ads in newspapers, Seagram congratulated Cinemactor Ray Milland for his "magnificent performance" as a depraved alcoholic, urged everyone to see the film. The preaching, said Seagram's, was exactly what it has also urged should be practiced. Said the second biggest whiskey company in the U.S.: "Some men should not drink...
...Lost Weekend (Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry; TIME...
...biggest strike-the 55-day-old walkout at General Motors-there was a ray of hope. President Truman's factfinder recommended a 19½?-an-hour increase. The company promptly turned it down, but the union approved on the condition that G.M. accept by Jan. 21. This was the date of the new steel-strike deadline. If steel is settled by then (see below), G.M. and the auto workers might also get together...
...Lost Weekend (Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry; TIME...