Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through a brisk six mile workout along the riverbank and on Wednesday followed up with speed work in the cinders. On paper, tomorrow's race should be fairly close, with the edge going to the engineers on the strength of their depth through the middle with Poorman, Goldie, and Ray. Running number two, three, and four for M. I. T., these men form the backbone of a well-balanced team...
...history. Purely an advisory body,* it had long been regarded as membered by impatient reformers. But this year the Council demanded a full accounting of China's wartime administration and delivered itself of responsible criticism on every part of China's crisis. Result: a sudden ray of hope in China's blackest year...
Mexico City's No. 1 doodler last week found himself the center of an artistic cult. Tall, wrinkled Chucho Reyes (pronounced Choocho Ray-ez) is a 58-year-old antique dealer and former art teacher who claims he knows nothing whatever about painting technique ("I don't paint-I just mess up paper...
This time John L. found his authority challenged by one Ray Edmundson, 42, of Springfield, Ill. For nine years husky Ray Edmundson had been the Lewis-appointed president of U.M.W.'s tough, bloody Illinois district, at $8,000 a year. Five months ago he threw up this sinecure, went back to the mines, and began fighting John L. on the issue of union autonomy, i.e., the right of districts to elect their own officers. (Of U.M.W.'s 31 districts, 21 are ruled by Lewis-appointed men, giving John L. near-perfect dictatorial control...
...week's end John L. got down to the good old-fashioned business of attacking the mine owners. (Ray Edmundson had fled town, unable even to gain a seat.) The operators heard that, at next spring's contract negotiations, U.M.W. would want the same pay for a 35-hour week which it is now getting for 40 hours-with portal-to-portal time included at regular rates...