Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Lady Macbeth, surgeons and x-ray specialists forever worry about their hands. Surgeons wring theirs to keep them supple, and pray that arthritis may never stiffen the joints. X-ray specialists search their hands for blemishes, and pray that x-ray burns may never compel an amputation...
...Whose voice was it, Colonel, that you heard in the vicinity of St. Ray mond's Cemetery that night, saying "Hey, Doctor...
...years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news. Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did. By last fortnight Dr. Millikan had decided that laymen interested in cosmic rays were being hopelessly confused by the tangle of-fact and conjecture reported by numerous researchers...
...starting lineup will have Boys and Leavitt White at forward, Gray at the pivot post, and Dick Fletcher and Ray Lavietes at guard. Lavietes is the only doubtful starter, as he has been troubled with a slight cold, but he is sure to see service in the course of the evening...
...Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan's belief that he expects the cosmic ray mystery to be solved within a year, advising laymen and teachers not to accept current findings as true until checked by several observers...