Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, a fact is a fact. Last week he recognized a new one. Although it fortified the cosmic ray theory of Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, who had become Dr. Millikan's opponent in the field of cosmic ray theories (TIME, Jan. 9), Dr. Millikan at once published his new finding...
Another fact on which both savants agree is that there is more than one kind of cosmic ray. Some rays pierce the earth's atmosphere more easily than others. If they are all electrons, those which reach sea level-reasons Dr. Compton-must have as much as thirty billion volts behind them. Dr. Compton's estimate is untenable, argues Dr. Millikan. Photons at five hundred million volts make just as big a splash in an electroscope as might electrons many times stronger...
...that U. S. farm wages were lower than they had been for 34 years. Bottom average: 40? per day & board in South Carolina. ¶ "When well-trained farmers, graduates from the school of agricultural experience, with capital behind them, are running right now on the verge of bankruptcy," said Ray McKaig of the Idaho State Grange, "any proposition to take city dwellers and put them on farms is utterly asinine...
...young boy was taken to one of the larger hospitals of Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbance, including melancholia. All hope of helping his condition had been practically abandoned, and he was about to be committed to one of the State Institutions. A last-minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient made rapid improvement, and returned to his usual occupation...
Last week Counselor Ray Atherton of the U. S. Embassy in London reported a steady stream of inquiries from U. S. citizens regarding nonexistent estates they would like to come into. "These letters are so numerous," said he, "we have prepared mimeographed forms to answer them...