Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Rapids was eulogizing Brooklyn the Methodists at Springfield (Mass.) assembled (TIME, May 12, et seq.), hammered out an anti-war doctrine. The strongly pacifist resolution (TIME, May 26) demanding that the Methodist Church dissociate itself from all war, offensive or defensive, was defeated. Pacifists led by Dr. Ray Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed to the draft of military...
...same rate of speed. The light beam travels in a continuous line over the picture, until it reaches the opposite side. In the center of the cylinder is a "photoelectric cell," consisting of a rod of potassium in a vacuum tube. It is so sensitive to light that any ray falling on it causes the electrons to fly from its surface, generating an electric current. As the cylinder revolves, the point of light passes through the transparent film and falls upon the potassium. In the dark parts of the picture less light gets through, and in the light parts, more...
...announcement of H. Grindell Mathews, English inventor, of his "diabolical rays" for destroying ships or airplanes at long distance aroused a chorus of skeptics on both sides of the water. Mr. Mathews has not yet seen fit to report his researches to the Royal Society or other scientific bodies, and he has yet to produce the effects he claims outside of a small laboratory. He has been offered the use of the well-equipped laboratories of the Rhone Engineering Works, Lyons, by M. Eugene Royer, their director, himself an inventor. He also has French financial backing, but he declares...
High hurdles--1, George Scattergood, Princeton; 2, Ray Wolf, Penn; 3, Albert Becker, California; 4, Henry Bullard, Yale; 5, Nathan Bugbee, Dartmouth...
...same time, one may receive Mr. Mathewa' invention as merely one more of the terrific weapons in that unimaginable armory which will supply the armies of the Next War. We have already gas of such potency that it will lay waste whole cities; the "ray" is not so deadly as this; it attacks only the specific object at which it is directed. And there remains the justifiable skepticism in the ability of all of these lethal toys to perform in action as atipulated. After all, they must be operated by human beings, and, human beings are vulnerable. Probably the horrors...