Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would give water different spectral color, new physical properties, but would not affect the taste. But since its nucleus is the simplest yet found consisting of more than one particle it would be a great aid in the study of nuclei, might add to data on the cosmic ray which Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks is the energy re-leased by the building up of elements in the universe...
Among this year's dead 40 were Joseph I. Johnson, 13, of Lafayette, Ind., who shot himself in the abdomen because he could not "make" his grade school team. Another fatality was Coach Ray Pardue. 24, of Statesville, N. C. High School team, cuffed to death by Garfield Jennings, 20, vexed linesman of the Taylorsville, N C. High School, which was playing Statesville High. Almost all the other deaths followed bashings on the football field. Most discussed of the deaths from violence were those of Army's Richard Brinsley Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 2) and Fordham's Cornelius...
...learning more & more about the nature of cells, and with each new bit of cell knowledge comes new knowledge of the nature of human beings, who are just cells multiplied and grown up. Last spring Dr. Francis Ferdinand Lucas, microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, perfected an ultraviolet ray microscope capable of showing living cells in action. He set it to work photographing brain, cancer and sperm cells (TIME, March 2). Last week was tested a device to extract new cell secrets...
...that a Federal department be established, with a Secretary of Education in the Cabinet. This has been urged by many an educator; the National Education Association has gone on record for it every year since 1917. But President Hoover has only vaguely encouraged the idea. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur announced his forthright opposition to a Department of Education. Because of this. Dr. James McKeen Cattell, able editor of scientific periodicals, onetime Columbia professor, expressed alarm last September at a "Memorandum of Progress" which the Advisory Council published in July 1930 intimating that a Federal department would...
...this week for Belgian Henri Verbrugghen, also ailing. Minneapolis will find him as Philadelphia did, a diligent, painstaking musician, free from mannerisms. His thin, blond hair and light blue eyes are perfect counterparts of a self-effacing personality. But Conductor Ormandy is no longer pale. He uses a sun-ray lamp diligently, wears a becoming all-year...