Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, and none, I think, in the United States. President Eliot has witnessed the development of railways, of steamships, of ironclad, of submarines, of airplanes, of breech-loading guns, of the telegraph, of the telephone, of two-cent postage, of radio, of automobiles, of newspapers, of X-ray, of elevators, of skyscrapers and, last but not least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From his severe and prolonged ordeal he emerges with faith unshaken in God and man. He left on my mind...
...bright ray however which penetrates the gloom of the catastrophe is the fact that the proctor was not robbed. Possibly the astute burglar realized his inability to cope with such a man. Possibly he was so burdened with spoils already that he hesitated to endanger his pockets with more. But perhaps the circumstance that the proctor's door was locked had something to do with it. It appears that his was almost the only door which was locked, and to a sensitive criminal, the hospitality of the generous students who magnificently left their doors open must have been infinitely more...
Most of the choir went on strike. The preacher expressed his regrets. Most returned. But Choir Leader Ray Hartley, divorced, who had married a divorcee, and Deacon Fred Woodburn, three times divorced, and four times married, have not returned to the church and may never return...
...substance into the gall-bladder which would make possible the photographing of its outline. Drs. Warren H. Cole and Evarts A. Graham of the Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) have succeeded in finding a substance which can be satisfactorily introduced into the gall-bladder and which permits X-ray photography of the organ later. The chemical name of the substance is calcium tetrabromphenolphthalein. The drug is injected into a vein. Three hours after the injection it begins to appear in the bile which collects in the gallbladder. Strangely enough, better photographs have been obtained from normal gallbladders than from...
When the entrants in the American Legion mile faced the starter's pistol, there were two Crimson representatives, Leo Ryan '26 and E. G. Haggerty '27. Neither of these were ever again within striking distance of Joie Ray who won in four minutes and 21 seconds. Haggerty put up a brilliant fight for third place and lost it only by inches...