Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demanded (not begged) their vote for this man Willkie. In this urgent, crusading atmosphere the delegates were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment for all the important political columnists were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Pegler, Hugh Johnson. Even the coldest, toughest of all, nail-hard Frank Kent told them flatly in his old-shrew style that, while Herbert Hoover was the best man, Wendell Willkie was the only winning candidate...
...Edward Ray Weidlein, internationally famed director of the Mellon Institute, chemical engineer, and World War I member of the War Industries Board...
...with politicians, an end to popular suspicion of businessmen as such, a recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist Ray Clapper: "Democracy has been a failure in Europe. It has been blind, slow, inefficient, unable to understand its interests and to protect them. . . . The idea of popular sovereignty is down flat on its back. The tribal king is on the throne again. . . . Republicans have just one issue in this campaign...
...Emmet Kennard Knott, a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer, began to experiment with the effect of ultraviolet rays on the blood of dogs. In a local veterinary hospital he infected dogs with streptococci and staphylococci, withdrew a large amount of blood from their veins, irradiated it under an ultraviolet lamp, and put it back in circulation. Theoretically, the rays should have killed the germs. Instead, they killed the dogs...
...Possible reason: Cardinal Manager Ray Blades, who was supplanted last fortnight by 47-year-old Billy Southworth. In 39 games this season, bench-jittery Blades used 107 pitchers, permitted only six to finish the games they started...