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Word: rayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What she got, besides that: a chariot ride to the circus, behind four "Arabian stallions"; a ride on an elephant; lunch at the Colony; tea with Cinemactor Ray Milland at the Waldorf Towers; dinner at the Stork Club; champagne at El Morocco; a night at the Ritz Tower (she telephoned everybody she knew in New York to come over for drinks); backstage calls on Fredric March and Beatrice Lillie; an armful of roses, a $125,000 ruby necklace (for 24 hours), a $65 hat (for keeps), and "the works" in a beauty parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mrs. Lane's Day | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...calls his painting Color-Music Expressionism. "Inherent synesthetic perceptions" (granted, he explains, to only 5% of humanity) account for his seeing colors when he hears musical sounds. He has supplemented his natural gift with a complex mathematical scheme, based on the comparative vibrations of sounds and light rays.* A ray of red, for example, has about 477,000,000,000 vibrations per second. Its tonal equivalent, to Belmont, is the key of C. Similarly, the key of D is orange; E, yellow; F, yellow-green, etc. Thus, a dirge is painted in blues and violets, a scherzo in reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Synesthete | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

William A. Cahill, NROTC, Ray A. Goldberg '48, and Monroe S. Singer '47 will debate the affirmative position in the question of postwar compulsory military training. Opposing them will be Richard T. Gill '48, Albert J. Marks '47, and Arthur D. Sporn '47. These two teams will subsequently debate the same question against Princeton and Yale in the annual Triangular Debates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Compete for Coolidge Prize Money | 5/11/1945 | See Source »

Tech: H. Thorkilson, stroke; J. B. Hoaglund, 7; F. N. Kurriss, 6; J. E. Taft, 5; C. F. Street, 4; W. J. Rapoport, 3; T. P. Heuchling, 2; S. Edgerly, Jr., bow M. L. Ray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tech Shell Whips Crimson, Cornell in Charles Regatta | 5/8/1945 | See Source »

...light, portable sound locator for spotting enemy guns. Using a directional microphone, 'the device instantly calculates the position of a firing gun and marks the location by means of an arrow on a cathode ray screen (as in television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gadget War | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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