Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Mrs. Lansdowne, the defense called other witnesses: Major Ray Walsh to testify as to the part of airplanes in last summer's Hawaiian maneuvers; Major Carl E. George to testify to the efficiency of airplane bombing; Major H. A. D argue to testify to attempts to muzzle officers of the Air Service...
...have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility to rearrange the human nervous system so that one kind of sense impression is substituted for another, but it is quite within...
...Ray. Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology told the Academy about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred...
...Cornell to break out of its Ithacan fastnesses and sell itself to the country at large. Once the public has glimpsed the serene, unwordly life the modern undergraduate leads in his pursuit of knowledge they will no longer believe the "college" movies with which Harold Lloyd and Charles Ray have travestied real college life...
Many famous veterinarians have done what they could. In London two years ago, the Fields Distemper Council started an elaborate experimental farm (TIME, Sept 24, 1923). Last week Dr. J. W. Patton, in the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital, Manhattan, let it be known that he is using ultra-violet-ray treatment. He installed a quartz lamp and put blue goggles on the dogs to protect their eyes from the strong light. But he does not believe he has found a cure...