Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLARD L. DAYTON C. L. MCVAUGH RAY W. LABBITT CHAS. E. BROKAW ROGER M. ANTHONY Detroit, Mich...
...minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great property (TIME, Oct. 6). The Department of Justice asked him for his evidence. He replied last week that the Department of Justice was prejudiced. Then, while Washington officials fumed, he began to tell his story publicly...
Zaro Agha, Turk, whose passport says he is 156 years old (TIME, March 17), was knocked down and badly bruised by a Manhattan motorist. He was rushed to his hotel where X-ray showed all bones to be intact. Next day he sat up in bed, announced he felt well except for a pain in his stomach, ordered a hotdog and corn- on-the cob, to test a new set of false teeth...
...called "straight-stretch" type of molecule which composes it. Protein molecules of sperm cells are also of the "straight stretch" type. In addition to this structural likeness, there is a likeness of optical behavior. Like crystals, sperm cells break in two the light which passes through them, bending each ray so that two points of light emerge where one entered. This property is noted in living cells and in preserved specimens...
...National Academy of Sciences that he had rechecked this phenomenon of the spectral shift through the Mount Wilson telescope which can see farther into space than any other telescope in the world. Dr. Hubble analyzed 34 nebulae carefully by means of a spectroscope which breaks up a ray of light, shows the different colors of the spectrum which compound it. He found with few exceptions a uniform shift toward the red from the nearest to the farthest nebula, 75 million light years away. For every million-light-years increase in distance from the earth, he discovered...