Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ray of hope came from Washington. Discovering that even Capitol restaurants were out of cigarets, the Senate's Mead Committee met in a smokeless room, decided to send investigators out. And this week the Federal Trade Commission announced it also would investigate the shortage. All over the U.S. the cigaret gags were getting bitter. Sample: "Ask the man who owns...
...ready for use, the new plan lets the teacher be judged by his own colleagues. They in turn are guided by standards which the Washington faculty as a whole laid down in answer to a recent questionnaire. The novel application of these standards was worked out by Dean Edwin Ray Guthrie, recently chief consultant psychologist on the U.S. Army General Staff...
...Neill credits him not only with inventing the polyphase alternating current generator and Tesla induction motor, which scientists generally have hailed as the basis of "our electrical power era" (TIME, July 20, 1931), but also with discovering the basic principles of the radio, radar, electronic tube, X ray, fluorescent light, electron microscope, rocket bomb, etc. All these and the discovery of cosmic rays besides, says O'Neill, were inspired by basic Tesla findings. Less ardent admirers do not go so far: they classify many of Tesla's "discoveries" as mere hunches, lacking in scientific documentation. A fantastically secretive...
...Hays Hammond, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Samuel Insull. During the last 20 years of his life, Tesla holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, dreaming of bigger & bigger projects. Before his death last year at 86, he had announced that he was on the verge of: 1) inventing a death ray, 2) communicating with other planets...
While we're still searching for the hard luck kid seeking priorities on the western frontier, the smug expression of Romeo Ray Wibble and many others too numerous to count are worth noting. There is a general "attitude" of complete satisfaction all around as we finish the finest leave since way back...