Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That last five minute splurge, however, cost the Crimson dearly, for Ray Eder, Hennessy, and Don Geeson were lost to the team early in its second half continuation. And with them went the ball game...
This is painfully true when Ray Nance, an ordinary trumpet player, a poor violinist, and an unnecessarily heavy-handed showman, is out in front as soloist. It is definitely not required that a violinist assume an agonized, orgiastic expression in order to produce a simple passage; Nance was such a phony mugger that when he trotted out for his last violin solo the crowd laughed before he even began to play. Nance would never have been tolerated in the old Ellington band, and there would have been no room for such ordinary musicians as Skippy Williams and Jimmy Hamilton...
Cultural Note. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of an ultraviolet-ray device that 1) makes empty seats in a movie house visible, 2) gives the audience a gentle ultraviolet bath during the show...
...54th day a ray-detecting electrometer struck pay dirt. The city engineer built a tricky special scraper, probed, scratched, and out of a heap of sewer muck hauled the three precious tubes...
...ringwormy moppet must stay away from school until cured. The minimum curing time for ringworm is a month. X rays are the only way of getting at the fungus around the roots of the hair. To be effective, the rays must make infected hair fall out. Sometimes hair roots get killed in the process. What with new cases and slow-curing cases (if one X-ray treatment does not kill the ringworm fungus, another cannot be given safely for six months), so many Queens moppets are under ringworm quarantine that a special school for ringworm students has been started...