Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prescribed dosage of 100 roentgens had been delivered to the patient, it shut itself off. "O.K.," said Laughlin, "that's it." Thus the University of Illinois unveiled its betatron, the first of such power to be used in the U.S. for medical treatment.* Its advantage over earlier X-ray producers, most of which generate no more than a sixtieth of its power, is in the penetrating power of its high-speed, ultra-shortwave rays. Ordinary rays do most of their work at the skin surface or just below it, and are then dissipated. In large doses they cause serious...
...used experimentally to treat eight patients since February. Directors of the Canadian project are not yet ready to report results. * Patients with cancer so widespread as to be considered hopeless will not be treated with the betatron. Also, many common types of cancer cells do not yield to X-ray treatment...
...victims of rheumatoid arthritis impatiently awaiting a boost in the tiny supply of cortisone, there was another slender ray of hope this week. While it might take years to make the hormone from seeds of the over-trumpeted vine Strophanthus sarmentosus (TIME, Aug. 29), a more abundant and more accessible plant has been named as a source of the raw material...
...Dare. Portly Police Commissioner John C. Prendergast, Chief Ray Crane and two policemen took the dare, sprinted for the front door, edged into the choking smoke inside. Craig, flat on the upstairs landing, began potting at them. They retreated, firing...
...best in the show, a tempera House by the Seashore (see cut) by the University of Wisconsin's Ray Obermayr, owed an obvious debt to the two living U.S. masters: Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper. It struck a low blue note characteristic of the exhibition as a whole. Buffalo's Hubert Raczka had painted a lonely little figure through the bars of a fire escape, called it Insignificance. The Portland Museum School's Robert Galaher had wrapped his hulking Circus Worker in a sad, smokelike haze, and Milwaukee's John Pagac had contributed a fatly photographic...