Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York bankers. "I'm glad to be able to pass on to my children," he remarked a little forlornly, "the record of what I tried to do, putting in a full day's work and playing the game, playing a man's card, in bringing a ray of sunshine to those who fell in the battle of the Depression...
...State College. A onetime field worker in the U. S. Forest Service, he organized forestry courses at Iowa State, built up New York State College of Forestry (largest of its kind), organized the Trade Associations Department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He is a brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson...
...Women, enrollment 200. Stanford University lifted the limitation on female students which Mrs. Leland Stanford wrote into its charter in 1899. Fearing that women might some day outnumber men. she decreed that no more than 500 be enrolled. But Stanford has lately felt pinched. Hoping for bigger income, President Ray Lyman Wilbur pointed out another clause in the charter, stipulating a "university of high degree." He cunningly argued that the limitation clause made this impossible. Stanford's trustees agreed. Stanford's 3,000 males grumbled. With the passing of "the 500" there died the practice of calling...
...reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly. Tooth Crystals. X-ray analysis showed J. Thewlis a close analogy between the structure of tooth enamel and the fertilizing mineral apatite. He hopes that further study will show how to prevent tooth decay. Enamel and apatite consist of fibres made up of hexagonal crystals in which precisely the same elements (calcium, oxygen, phosphorus) have...
...David A. Lamson, 31-year-old sales manager of the Stanford University Press. They were campus socialites, neighbors of Theodore Jesse Hoover, dean of Stan- ford's engineering school and Coolidgesque brother of the ex-President (see cut). Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, was their close friend, best man at their wedding. Who could have killed Mrs. Lamson? Her husband? The Stanford campus could not think so, but the State did. Last week David Lamson was on trial for murder in San Jose...