Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RAY BARBER...
From the list of twenty-one candidates, the seven elected were: Joseph a. Cannon '47, Albert H. Feingold '48, Ray A. Goldberg '48, David R. Kearney, Jr. '46, Earl Montgomery, Jr. '43, John T. Noonan '47, and Edward L. Liva...
...ray shines through thick steel castings as if they were made of ice. But it will do other, even more interesting things. A silver half-dollar, for instance, held briefly in its beam, becomes dangerously radioactive. The rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...
Last week a tiny ray of hope came from the National Leprosarium at Carville, La. which has been trying out Promin, one of the first sulfa drugs used against tuberculosis (the germs of the two diseases are much alike). In three years 32,000 daily injections were given to 137 leper volunteers. Result: 58% improved. In 10% of those treated over a year, leprosy bacteria disappeared; in another 30%, bacteria were reduced in number. (The tendency among untreated lepers is for bacteria to increase...
When fed the proteins every two hours, some of the 47 Co patients were free of pain in two days, and after three weeks some ulcers no longer showed up on X-ray films. Many of the patients gained weight...