Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streamlined dentists' office just off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue a decided improvement in X-ray could be seen last week. It consisted of some amazing X-ray transparencies. Each one appeared fuzzy to the naked eye, like seeing double. But through polaroid eyeglasses each transparency was a clear, three-dimensional, stereoscopic view into a body. A pencil moving over a film of the chest seemed to move among the ribs, poke the heart. Three dentist brothers, Edward, Milton, Harold Klein, perfected the method...
...trouble with most previous stereoscopic X-rays, the Kleins explain,* was that the two exposures were made the same way stereoscopic photographs are made: i.e., by moving the X-ray tube two and a half inches (average distance between eye pupils) between shots. But an X-ray tube does not correspond to an eye, as a camera does. It corresponds to a light source which shoots rays through the subject to make shadows on the film beyond. Moving the tube two and a half inches produces too much disparity in the resulting films. Viewed through a stereoscope, such pictures will...
...some cancer conditions, and possibly 300 grams have been sold to U.S. hospitals and doctors. But few specialists are expert enough to use it effectively, few are the cases (less than 20%) in which it could be 100% effective no matter what their skill. Moreover, high-voltage X-rays have increasingly replaced radium for use on cancers located in parts of the body accessible to X-ray tubes. And the cyclotron has created a very serious rival, since other minerals can be made radioactive artificially...
...Douglas, Chicago lawyer) George went to the airlines again. Chief of operations is TWA's Larry Fritz (who flew one of the freighters to India last week); chief of domestic transportation and training, Colonel Harold R. Harris, who had organized Pan American Grace (Panagra); United Airlines' Colonel Ray Ireland, chief of priority traffic; Northwest Airlines' Colonel George Gardner, foreign operations; Pan American's Colonel Grant Mason, chief of plans; American Airlines' Lieut. Colonel James G. Flynn, communications...
...Bainter as the mother is Saroyan's Cornelia: the mother of all the human race, who sees happiness through suffering, and finds solace in prayer. Father Ray Collins is dead, but his spirit returns at any given moment with words of comfort, and the MacCauleys are always aware of his presence...