Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio sets (sent on approval) was in operation at the Hoover abode. The end of the week saw the Nominee headed north, for "complete relaxation," on a 1,000-mile motor trip to the headwaters of the Klamath River. With him, in eleven cars, went newsgatherers, cameramen, President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University and several professors; Allan Hoover (youngest son); Assistant U. S. Attorney-General William J.("Wild Bill") Donovan; Representative John John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut; George Akerson (secretary) ; also fishing rods, flies, the acceptance speech (for further reworking) and a batch of "crank" letters. The latter amuse...
...microscope, they resemble rather the lens-like drops of moisture which split up the sunlight after a storm, making a rainbow. Once the process is perfected, they are simple, economical to make. The camera is fitted with a three-color filter: red, green, blue; the red, green, blue rays coming from the subject march each through its own section, pass through the main camera lens; fall upon the tiny film lenses. These act as policemen, guiding each light ray to its own place on the sensitive emulsion; making that place more or less transparent according to the light rays that...
...mouth to munch a meal last week that three of his front teeth were missing. Supposing that he had left them somewhere about his house, he conducted a search, but while doing so, he became aware of sharp stomach pain. His suspicions were soon confirmed by an X-ray photograph. He had swallowed his three front teeth. Still calm, John Magee announced with a vacant grin, his intention of going to Newport...
...Ray Lyman Wilbur, M. D., LL. D., brother of famed Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy...
Picked for the U. S. Olympic Marathon team-old Clarence DeMar, chesty Joie Ray, young William Agee, stout Jimmy Hennigan, skinny Harvey Frick, blond Albert Michelson...