Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first X-ray pictures ever made had nothing to do with pure science. In 1895, German Physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen made an X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, to make her appreciate the work he was doing and forgive him for having slighted her cooking...
...hand, explained Dr. Brailsford, is "the skeleton's calling card." It can be held perfectly steady for X-ray purposes; there is little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...
Westhrin and Ray Pierce, who also rates high on the saber ladder, are sophomores. In the other weapons, '51 doesn't do so well and the old-timers take over. Captain John Ager is top man in epee, a three-sided sword with a cup-shaped hilt, Giles Constable and Masterson fill up the top three, and may be the group to face Bowdoin in the first game this February...
Captain Dan Ray's final appearance before the local gentry was short, sweet, and spectacular. Wrestling at 165, he pinned Gone Register with a half nelson and a body press just two minutes and six seconds after the start of their bout...
...pound class-- Smith (H) pinned Berkman (W) with a body press in 7:22; 136-pound class-- Wach (H) decisioned Hoover (W), 5-3; 145-pound class--Stemler (W) decisioned King (II), 3-0; 155-pound class-Jones (II) decisioned Dolth (W), 5-1; 165-pound class--Ray (H) pinned Register (W) with a half nelson and body press in 2:06; 175-pound class--Louria (H) decisioned Keller (W), 10-6; Unlimited class--Houston (H) pinned Welsh (W) with a chancery...