Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of weeks, and many dates later, La Rue told Pearl that if he could just get a picture of this loot with a powerful X-ray camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...
Snap that Shutter. When she had the route cold, La Rue gave her the X-ray camera: a contraption about as long as a shoebox and camouflaged in Christmas paper. Pearl tried it out on the woman as she left her office, pulling the wire that clicked the shutter. But La Rue said the picture was no good. He would improve the camera, he said, and make it "super-X-ray...
...thinks gigantically," said Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt. "If thought were light, and our planet visible by it, and space were time, the next ages would see us coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
Frank Tyng won a stormy 12 to 8 match over Tech-man Earnest Miklau, and Dan Ray took the fourth straight bout for the Crimson when he defeated Wilbur Haggerty 6 to 2. The grapplers lost decisions in the 121-pound class where Harry Schless was edged by one point and in the 165-pound division where Tech ace Whit Mauzy won by a 9 to 2 margin...
...Ray, also a member of last year's team, will wrestle in the 155-pound class while Cassady is at 165. At the 175-pound class team-captain Don Louria, bothered by injured hands, will wrestle. Pete Fuller won a decision over Howie Houston in a challenge bout earlier in the week and will wrestle in the heavyweight class...