Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C. "Slim" Jones, holder of the world's record for being buried alive (38 days), turned over in his coffin, picked up his telephone, asked for long distance, chatted with Ray Richards, buried alive near a hot dog stand in Denville, N. J. Jones told Richards that his grave was in the bed of a dried-up stream, that heavy rains threatened to wash him out, that he intended to stay underground 40 days if he could. Richards told Jones that bandits came to his grave, tried to steal the day's cash receipts, threw burning...
Motoring to lecture at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, la.) Dr. Arthur Holley Compton, co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1927 (cosmic rays), skidded on the wet pavement of the Lincoln Highway, crashed into another car, demolished his own, escaped serious injury. Hospitalized were his two companions of last summer's cosmic ray junket to the Andes (TIME, March 28): his wife, with cuts about the body and head, a nail through her left hand, and their son Arthur Alan, with a lacerated scalp...
...match meet, the Harvard Varsity netmen defeated the Yale tennis team 9-6 at New Haven on Saturday. The Crimson won seven of the ten singles matches and two of the doubles. S. E. Davenport, 3rd, '34, Richard Inglis, Jr. '33, and J. F. Ray '34 were all forced to three sets to win their singles matches as were F. P. Whitbeck '35 and W. E. Ingalls, Jr. '35 in their doubles match. Whitbeck defeated Ty Cobb, Jr. 6-4, 6-4. Harvard used 15 players in the meet...
Singles--S. E. Davenport, 3rd '34 defeated Moorhead (Y), 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Richard Inglis, Jr. '33, defeated Hastings (Y), 6-2, 7-9, 6-4; Miles (Y) defeated W. E. Arensberg '33, 6-4, 6-2; J. F. Ray '34 defeated Bassford (Y), 7-9, 6-3, 6-2; Mundy (Y) defeated F. W. Jones, Jr. '35, 6-2, 6-3; F. P. Whitbeck '35 defeated Cobb (Y), 6-4, 6-4; G. H. Hartford, 2nd '34 defeated Hamilton (Y), 7-5, 6-3; Wardman (Y) defeated Sumner Redman...
Doubles--Davenport and Ray defeated Moorhead and Miles (Y), 8-6, 5-7, 6-4; Hastings and Cobb (Y) defeated J. B. Wilkinson '35 and Arensberg, 6-1, 6-2; Mundy and Bassford (Y) defeated S. G. Haskins '35 and G. B. Sykes '33, 6-4, 6-2; Whitbeck and Ingalis defeated Hamilton and Hill (Y), 4-6, 8-6, 6-0; Wardman and Carlisle (Y), defeated Ian Baldwin '33 and J. K. Mitchell...