Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HARVARD BATES Burns c.f. s.s. Small Jones r.f. 2b. Young Barakov 3b. c.f. Ray Todd l.f. l.f. Palmer Tobin 1b. c. Karkos Chauncey c. 1b. Peck Ullman 2b. r.f. White Sullivan s.s. 3b. Osgood Booth or Cutts p. p. Black or Chick...
Calcium. Dr. Weston A. Price of Cleveland reported data furthering scientific knowledge of the effect of the ultraviolet ray in aiding calcium assimilation (bone growth). This knowledge, already applied to the treatment of rickets, definitely relates influenza epidemics with city smoke-palls; definitely benefits gravid women, who, according to the old rule, sacrificed "a tooth for every child...
Bombardment. Professor William D. Harkins of Chicago reported negative results from efforts to duplicate experiments by which Professor Miethe of Berlin and Professor Nagoaka of Tokyo have claimed they obtained gold from mercury. Mercury was bombarded with streams of electrons from an X-ray tube at 140,000 volts, but not so much as one part of gold in a hundred billion of mercury was afterwards detected. Nitrogen bombarded with helium atoms going 12,000 miles an hour was built up into fluorine atoms, which then disintegrated into atoms of hydrogen and oxygen...
...Mirror, was out with the news that she was a "flop."* Speculators were described as anguished because they could not unload admissions to her expensive performances ($11 after the opening). Large pictures were displayed of Meller and Irene Bordoni side by side. Bordoni is the wife of E. Ray Goetz, Meller's importer. Was Bordoni vexed, asked the sheetlet, because her husband had presented, so sensationally, this Spanish onion...
...years ago she sang in Paris, later in London, Rome, South America. For more than three years, impresarios have been trying to lure her to the U.S. Broken contracts, excuses about fear of the sea, homesickness, personal ties intruded, and not until E. Ray Goetz, husband of Irene Bordoni, persuaded her, would she set sail? she and her three maids, eight dogs and 42 trunks in an entourage reminiscent of Sarah Bernhardt, who once heard her sing in private and told her she would some day be "as great as I think...