Word: rayed
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Mesons are subnuclear particles formed when cosmic rays from outer space hit the atmosphere. In mass, mesons are intermediate between electrons and protons. In charge, they can be either positive or negative. The positive mesons disintegrate after a millionth of a second or so, turning mostly into energy (a gamma ray...
Tracked to the Grave. The two Russians studied microscopic tracks of free silver which mesons had made on photographic films (probably exposed at high altitudes, where cosmic ray effects are strongest). Their authorized, translated report is far from clear, but apparently they found what they were looking for in the sensitive emulsion: groups of short lines arranged like a star or a chicken-track. Each of these, they said, was an X which marked the spot where a negative meson had murdered an atomic nucleus...
First he decided that a useful death ray would have to 1) burn a half-inch hole in a four-inch plank in five seconds; 2) burn a six-inch live tree two miles away in three minutes; 3) kill small animals at 5,000 feet in three seconds. Reason: anything milder would not be valuable militarily...
...Murray feels, the death-ray business may be looking up. After V-J day, a promising idea was presented to Government scientists. The inventor was told to continue his work in private, with Government blessing...
Twenty-five packages of Thanksgiving dinners were distributed to needy families in the Cambridge area yesterday, according to Ray Goldberg '48, president of Phillips Brooks House. Trucks took the parcels, wich were packed by PBH workers on Tuesday, to families whose names had been given them by the Cambridge Social Service Center...