Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year's law caught sportsmen napping. Many insisted there was no shortage. Others, admitting a shortage in the West and a general scarcity of canvasbacks, redheads and other divers, insisted that in the East most wildfowl were as plentiful as ever, black ducks more so. Editor Raymond Prunty ("Ray") Holland of Field & Stream argued that if a duck cannot find food in one place it will go somewhere else. To raise money for conservation the American Game Association introduced a bill in Congress providing for a $1 Federal hunting license, met a counter proposal from the More Game Birds...
Among those who have been bombarding atoms with alpha particles are Mme Curie's daughter, Irene Curie-Joliot, her husband F. Joliot, Dr. Chadwick and Professor Walter Bothe of Giessen, Germany. Professor Bothe, bombarding beryllium, decided he was creating an artificial super-gamma ray. Dr. Chadwick decided that a proton and an electron knocked loose by alpha particles might combine, without any electrical charge at all, in one unit to make a neutron. This self-contained unit might be the ultimate unit of magnetism, having within itself opposite poles...
...repeated experiment it is known that any electrically charged form of matter will penetrate paraffin, for example, more easily than lead. Bombarding lithium with alpha particles from polonium, the Curies found they were knocking out a ray that penetrates lead more easily than paraffin. By empirical reasoning, the ray produced must be a new kind of ray, since it breaks all known rules. The Curies concluded their ray "cannot be of an electronic or electromagnetic nature." It is probably a ray of neutrons. Irene Curie-Joliot and her husband did much of the preliminary work in radiation that helped Neutron...
Next day Maiola Kalili finished third in the final heat, behind Ray Thompson of Annapolis and Al Schwartz of the Illinois athletic Club, who won. Clarence ("Buster") Crabbe won the 1,500-metre free style race; but spies from the Japanese Olympic team, who sat peering at the meet and scribbling in note books, wrote a long description about a freckled 14-year-old Floridian, Ralph Flanagan, who finished a close second. Crabbe won the 400-metre free style two days later, in better time than the Olympic record...
Last week in Paris Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reiterated in a paper read before the International Electrical Congress his belief that cosmic rays are the "birth cries" of atoms newly born in the cold spaces between the stars. His paper was written before he heard of a report published last week in the Physical Review by his fellow Nobel Prizewinner, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now in Peru. Old is the quarrel between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who calls cosmic rays the "death wails" of matter on the stars. Dr. Millikan's friend Dr. Compton last week...