Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing he had to say, Dr. Heyroth briefly described the electromagnetic spectrum and the nature of the various radiations, from the long, red end of the visible spectrum out to Hertzian or radio waves; and from the short, violet end of the visible spectrum out to the cosmic (Millikan) ray...
...Cosmic rays are shortest and most penetrating. They are the quivers of the gestating universe and the twitchings of dying matter. It is supposed that when vagabond rhythms of space collide and entangle, a pristine atom is born and a cosmic ray darts away from the medley, that when aged protons and electrons bash each other to death, the offshoot of their antagonism is a cosmic ray...
Little is known of cosmic rays. But of other rays a progressive series of effects on living matter may be observed. Heat, for example-and Dr. Heyroth pursued his thesis* with mounting excitement- sears the flesh immediately. X-rays cause a burn which becomes evident three weeks to six months after. Gamma-ray burns do not show for years. "So the cosmic rays, we believe, must take infinitely longer still. Of what investigation we have made of these rays, we venture what seems to be a wholly new theory as to why- exempting not even the strongest and most sheltered...
...books, and opposite to it a panelled conference room. In the basement, from which no windows lead, will be four special laboratories for experimentation in light and color. Here also will be a sound-proof room for work in sound, a room devoted to making vacuums, and two X-ray rooms. Two other X-ray rooms will be on the second floor and the four together will house the new $50,000 equipment recently donated to the college. On the second floor will be many dark-rooms and a chemistry laboratory...
...Coan's 4:17 mile in this race was enough to put him 20 yd. ahead at the wire. Another Pennsylvanian, Bill Carr, ran a dead heat with Johnny Lewis of Detroit City College in the 300-yd. race and won the runoff. In the 1,000-yd., Ray Conger had to beat George Bullwinkle, intercollegiate one-mile outdoor champion, and wise fans said he could not do it. They knew how Bullwinkle-a pacemaker as well as a finisher-liked to beat a finisher like Conger by getting so far ahead that no sprint would catch...