Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road. "I hit one and turned over," recalled Talmadge. "It killed the mule. I'm just a little bruised." His car was a total wreck. Though his victim was out of the harness for good, Talmadge was soon fitted for one by doctors: X-ray photos showed that he had a cracked...
...Surgeon Ray has perfected the operation for a series of patients selected by Dr. Pearson, attending physician at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. The procedure, no longer rated dangerous, takes only 1½ hours. Many patients are up and about the next day; within a week they report a loss of pain or even discomfort. Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers. Maintenance medication is simple: regular tablets of cortisone and thyroid hormone suffice for most; one in four also needs...
Vocabulary Builder. Since Caltech is dedicated to science and engineering, it is only natural that its laboratories should outnumber classrooms about five to one. And out of these laboratories have come some major revolutions in knowledge. The terms that Caltech has made important -cosmic ray, Badger's rule, alpha helix, Neurospora, positron, meson and mumeson-may not be exactly household words, but they have become standard parts of science's vocabulary...
...Einstein prediction that a ray of light bends noticeably when passing a massive body like the sun has been checked several times, according to Sinton, but never with the accuracy that should be possible this time...
John Houk (B) defeated Ham Gravem, 6-2, 6-3; Alex Haegler (H) defeated George Kirkpatrick, 3-6, 10-8, 8-6; Conrad Fischer (H) defeated Nat Greene, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Brooks Harris (H) defeated Webb Ray, 7-5, 7-5; Dan Mayers (H) defeated Larry Waterman, 6-2, 8-6; Maynard Canfield (H) defeated Ian Sinclair...