Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pallid inmates of one of the cell houses were assembled for a Thanksgiving Day cinema. The silence was broken by a shuffling of feet and hoarse muttering. Seven or eight convicts had slipped from their places and surrounded Assistant Turnkey Ray Singleton. They were dragging him towards a door from the cellhouse into the adjacent hospital. They were telling him to get the master key. Turnkey Singleton was answering that the master key, which would open the main door of the cellhouse, had been taken away from its usual place at the telephone switchboard...
...knew that in moisture-laden air invisible particles of dust collect moisture until they become visible water vapor. Professor Wilson theorized that ionized molecules in a dust-free, moisture-logged receptacle would also provide foci for water condensation. Into such a chamber he shot alpha particles from an x-ray machine. Drops did collect on the alpha particles...
...than with Secretary Kellogg. The Hughes-headed delegation will be composed of: Ambassador-to-Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador-to-Italy Henry P. Fletcher, onetime (1915-27) Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Lawyers Morgan J O'Brien of Manhattan, and James Brown Scott of Washington, D. C., President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, Director-General of the Pan-American Union Leo S. Rowe. Whoever succeeds Enoch Herbert Crowder as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba was also to be a delegate. And if he can manage it, President Coolidge will...
...street car conductor, one J. Ray Akers, was one of Juror Kidwell's audience. Conductor Akers had an idea that autos are not what jurors usually "get out of" criminal trials Conductor Akers timidly telephoned the local Hearst paper (the Washington Herald). Reporter Donald T. King went and heard Juror Kidwell hold forth at the soft-drink stand with conductor Akers for interlocutor. reporter king then told the us attorneys office what he had heard. that office forthwith took certain covert steps...
Score--Harvard 1931, O., Worcester O. Referee--Thomas Dowd, Holy Cross. Umpire--Ray Keating, Springfield, Linesman--George Melican, Amherst. Time 10 minute quarters...