Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will present no powerhouse in the Stadium Saturday, but they will field an averagely heavy team long overdue. It is a team with no stars and only three starters definitely sure of their berth--Captain Lou Young at one guard, Bob O'Brien beside him at tackle, and sophomore Ray Wolfe at left-half. Nevertheless they will match Harvard on practically even terms...
...Ray Clapper is a middle-sized man with wise eyes, stooped shoulders, and a burning conviction that journalism is the most important profession in the world. In themselves, these attributes would not make him unique. The quality that long ago lifted Scripps-Howard's Clapper out of the ruck of columnists is his knack of translating some event into sound sense on the very day that people want to hear about it. Somehow he manages to move mentally a half-step faster than the mass mind. Farmers rocking on their porch chairs in the evening, clubmen lounging beside...
...only Ray Clapper but the U. S. had gradually learned what sort of a strange, uncompromising, unpolitical rugged character the G. O. P. had nominated...
Four correspondents and a cameraman -weary after many a sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed...
Walliser's show is distinguished from rivals by the fact that his inventions are all based, however remotely, on real discoveries. Walliser is now considering a sleep ray for Peter Quill, which will paralyze an enemy's hypothalamus, send him off into a gentle doze...