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Word: rayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kremlin jitters may have planted a Paris report that Russia had "infra-cosmic lays," which could explode any atom bomb from 12 miles. The report added that "safety belts," studded with "infra-cosmic ray" generators, are to be scattered from 60 to 100 miles around strategic cities and industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOMIC AGE: Cosmic Defense | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...originator and designer of this unique and strictly unofficial emblem, Lieutenant Ray H. Northcutt, SG (s), U.S.N.R., fortyish and vice president of a prominent West Coast construction firm, "got religion and joined up," expecting assignment to Seabee construction overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...crack tailgate man (he calls it "cellar-playing") worked in a New Orleans shipyard during the war. His last job: picking up nuts & bolts. Drummer Warren ("Baby") Dodds, a New Orleans alumnus, played drums for 20 years in Chicago, helped teach such top drummers as Gene Krupa, George Wettling, Ray Bauduc, Dave Tough, and quit steady work because it gave him high blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz? Swing? It's Ragtime | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Married. Miriam Hopkins, 40, stage & screen (Becky Sharp) star; and Ray mond B. Brock, 32 wartime Balkan correspondent of the New York Times; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Alexandria, Va. Her third husband was Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director (Mayerling, Tovarich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Stem to Stern. In Portland, Ore., Jitterbug Ray Harrigan started cutting a rug with a toothpick in his mouth, ended up in a hospital with an intestinal perforation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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