Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven "ghosts" who wrote articles signed by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Said President Walter M. Harrison of the Society: "After this ... I would be ready to believe that former President Coolidge isn't writing his own magazine articles except that I know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn't hire a ghost who writes as badly.* I agree with Shuman that you fellows have been chumps on this big name business." ¶ Publisher-Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas (Topeka Daily Capital) pleaded for the maintenance of strong editorial pages. Editorials, he declared, exert a potent influence...
Last week Dr. Percy W. Toombs of Memphis, Tenn., reported the known data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In brief they are: 1) X-ray-ing for a few seconds to get a photograph does not harm the unborn child, unless photographs are taken too frequently; 2) X-ray or radium doses strong enough to cause sterility or to destroy tumors cause abortions during the early months of pregnancy, or during the end of term monstrosities (of eyes, brain or spinal cord); 3) the younger the embryo, the greater the damage done...
...Danger! High Voltage!" appeared before the reporter. When the door on which is this sign was thrown open an immense storage battery producing a potential of 10,000 volts used in X-ray research was revealed. This battery is the largest in the world...
Distribution of the questionnaire came on the heels of statements by Ray Barbuti, Olympic 440-metre champion, although officials said the one had nothing to do with the other. Barbuti, suspended by the A. A. U. recently after criticism of amateur conditions, charged in the April number of Sportsmanship (a magazine published by the Sportsmanship Brotherhood) that amateur athletics often are paid by promoters. The payments are arranged through intermediaries, he said, and paid in cash. Payments run as high as $500, he declared. He asked a thorough investigation and remedial measures. Later, however, he refused to give names...
...Churchill, British Minister of War during "the" war, describes it in terms of exasperation, cynicism, vitriolic indignation. Though he was at the Peace Conference only toward the end, for the discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than...