Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scale. Enormous voltages impressed on sub-atomic particles will accelerate them to enormous speeds, but they are so infinitesimally small that the quantity of energy is negligible by ordinary standards.* But in the atomic world a force of 200,000,000 volts has hitherto been recorded only in cosmic ray showers, never in laboratory-created particles...
Godwin and Walker obtain their very bright, very brief flash by discharging 38,000 volts through a vacuum tube filled with mercury vapor at one-twentieth of atmospheric pressure. The voltage source is an X-ray apparatus and the current is stored in a 20-unit Leyden jar condenser...
...records by one of the top U. S. rhythm bands. Noteworthy items : I'm Prayin' Humble, a richly orchestrated hymn originated by Mitchell's Christian Singers (TIME, Jan. 2); The Big Noise from Winnetka, dog-house fiddle and drum duet by Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc...
Dean, whose baseball career appeared deemed last summer by a shoulder ailment, was elated by the turn of events. He breathed new confidence when doctors told his new X-Ray examinations showed that the muscle tear was healing "very satisfactorily" and that with at least six weeks more rest he should be able to take his regular turn when the season starts...
...There is practically no difference in chemical make-up or physical structure between normal cells and cancer cells. Nor are cancer cells more sensitive to heat, cold, X-ray or radium than normal cells. Main difference between cancer cells and normal cells is that cancer cells are not subject to the body's discipline, but grow like wildfire...