Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sir William Henry Bragg, 79, famed British physicist; in London. With Son William Lawrence Bragg he developed the X-ray spectrometer, which revealed the interior architecture of crystals. For this work father & son shared the 1915 Nobel Prize. A famed, sound popularizer of science, Sir William once flatly told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that man has a soul, declared : "Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together...
Conspicnous by their absence were men such as Dave Goldthwaite, Don McNicol, Johnny Page, and Ray Guild, who were expected to show up. But to bolster his weakened squad, Harlow made several changes. Johnny Teal moves from tackle to fullback, while "Swede" Anderson, a center last year, will be converted into a bucking back...
Fleshy, flashy Ray Dumont, onetime Wichita sporting-goods dealer, is a prolific begetter of brain children. Six years ago, to stimulate his trade, he organized the country's sandlotters into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. To ballyhoo the sand-lot business, he introduced many innovations: automatic home-plate duster (compressed air whooshed through an underground tube), neon-lighted Scoreboard, jack-in-the-box microphone for umpire's announcements, electric eye to detect balls...
Last week Ray Dumont announced the birth of another brain child: an "eagle's nest" for umpires. Like the crow's nest tried out at a Southern Oregon State Normal basketball game last month, the ballpark nest will be about ten feet above the ground, will give the base umpire a bird's-eye view of the infield. But Dumont's nest will be perched on a movable derrick, which, at the press of a button, will whisk the umpire to crucial spots...
...this was true-in 1918. But the metallurgist's laboratory, now equipped with such things as powerful X-ray machines to study flaws in castings, has replaced the foundry foreman's rule-of-thumb. Says Detroit Metallurgist E. C. Troy, "The foundry engineer has been able to improve his product almost beyond recognition...