Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight miscalculation last week is casily explained by the simple fact that Hobin throw a wrench in the Geers and there was then no Carpenter to take it out. However, everything will be all right today, for there is not a Ray of hope in the Indian Camp...
...Stearns a center, but Ellinger shifted them when graduation of the entire center of the line forced an alteration. Hagerman is the expert placement kicker of the Green who enabled the Indians to tie the Crimson last year and he has been even more accurate this year. Carl Ray, the heavy pudgy center who was the star on last year's freshman eleven has been a bulwark in the Dartmouth line and his defensive play this season has solved what threatened to be a big problem for the coaching staff...
Whether this is a part of Lehman's League, and one of the Financial Vice-Presidents little private charities or whether it is merely a question of an endurance contest between the students and the groundsmen is a good question, but whatever the solution, it brings a ray of sunshine into countless homes...
Physicists have not been content to pursue the cosmic ray in laboratories. They have carried their ionization chambers to mountain peaks, installed them on round-the-world ships, sunk them to the bottom of deep lakes, taken them down in mines, flown them in airplanes, sent them up in balloons manned and unmanned. All over the world, from Panama to Ceylon, from the Equator to within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole, they have carried a cosmic quest which has cost at least two lives. It has been found that cosmic rays are either particles of matter or units...
...Millikan was sure the rays were electrically neutral photons or light bullets. The University of Chicago's beetle-browed Arthur Holly Compton was equally certain they were electrically charged corpuscles. Dr. Compton's stand was strengthened by the piling up of evidence that cosmic ray intensity is less near the Equator than in high latitudes. That seemed to show that the rays were charged particles attracted to the Poles as a compass needle is. Then it was found that more cosmic rays come from the west than from the east. That datum, considered with reference to Earth...