Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fritz Kreisler, famed violinist: "In an interview given to a reporter on the Reliance, bound for Hamburg, I suggested that a movement be undertaken to induce the inventor of the so-called death ray (TIME, June 2 et seq.), to sell his device to 'an interested body of trustworthy men and women' who would destroy it so it could never be used again. I was reported to have shown deep emotion, to have said: 'I would be willing to undertake a monster benefit performance in New York, giving all the proceeds as a nucleus of a fund...
Commissions as second lieutenants of Field Artillery, Officers' Reserve Corps, will be awarded to the following: Thomas Elias Armstrong, of Denver, Colo.; Lawrence Soule Apsey, of Cambridge; Horace Lane Arnold, of Brookline; Walter Ray Baylies, of Boston; Wesley Meredith Behrens, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Richard Foster Howard, of Cambridge; John Casimir Mrowca, of Taylor, Pa.; William Joseph Will O'Hearn, of Roxbury, and William Morris Rosenbaum of Woodmere...
...research problems in which they will engage include the X-ray-quantum theory; the Zeeman effect on fluorine; insulation with special relation to absorption; structure of steel with effect of carbon concentrated...
Harry Grindell Matthews (TIME, June 2) plunged deeper into an orgy of mysterious dickering with prospective purchasers of his invisible "death ray." Refusing an offer of ?1,000 from the British Air Ministry for a two-weeks option, provided he would test his machine on a government motor instead of on a motorcycle engine in his own laboratory, Matthews melodramatically seized an airplane and hopped off for Paris just as process servers reached the field to serve a writ of injunction on him from Edgar Grubbins, A. H. Daley, and J. S. P. Sanborne, English capitalists who claim to hold...
...Paris, Mathews secluded himself and consulted attorneys, but wild | rumors were afloat-that Royer, the Lyons electrical magnate, was acting for the French Government; that British representatives followed Matthews to renew their offers and prevent the escape of the "ray" from England; that Ambassador Herrick had invited Matthews to lunch at the American Embassy, and that U. S. naval attaches were investigating unofficially. The Navy Department denied any offer. The British Under Secretary for the Air Ministry, interpellated in the House of Commons, said Matthews had not demonstrated his claims to their satisfaction, and that the phenomenon of stopping...