Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army used what it called "Sferic" - Static Direction Finder - a device developed in Florida and combat-tested in the storm-ridden Pacific theater. Sferic employs a radar-like directional antenna (two mutually perpendicular receiving loops) and cathode-ray tube. Certain types of storms are accompanied by severe electrical disturbances, familiar to every radio listener as the crashing static that accompanies a thunderstorm...
Sferic's antenna, revolving like a non stop merry-go-round, seeks out these static signals and relays them to the weatherman as straight-line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
William P.D. Bailey '49, Ray A. Goldberg '48, and Eleazer Krumbein '47 defended the losing negative case in the question of turning the atomic bomb over to the United Nations Organization...
...Lost Weekend (Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry; TIME...
William P. D. Bailey '49, Ray A. Goldberg '48, and Eleazer Krumbein '47 will defend the negative position for Harvard in an attempt to secure the second victory of the current season for the Council...