Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primitive Physarum has extraordinary qualities of high resistance to X-ray bombardments and emanations from radium, it resembles the cells of stubborn cancers called fibrosarcomas...
...Deep Rays. Near Mohawk, Mich., the Seneca Copper Mining Co. has a mine shaft which slopes down at a 34° angle to a vertical depth of 1,600 feet. Volney C. Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson...
These were said to be the deepest authentic cosmic ray recordings ever made. Mr. Wilson, believing that ordinary electrons or protons could not penetrate 1,600 feet of solid rock, came to the conclusion that the rays must be either neutrinos or X-particles, both relative unknowns. For although atomic physicists speak of neutrinos (small, uncharged particles with a mass less than that of an electron) as familiarly as a carpenter does of a tenpenny nail, they have never come to light experimentally. "X-particles," although they have turned up experimentally (TIME, Nov. 29), have yet to be explained...
...service staff at Totieigh Castle are running a sweepstakes on the young mistress' suitors, and Jerry is not even listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth two in the distant Alps and Pianist Noble to boot, wins the sweepstakes for the castle Boots (Moppet Harry Watson...
...Flickinger, William D. McSweeney, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr., John P. Schwede, Peter G. Zouck, Ray C. Holt, Horace J. Bresler, Robert L. Wright, James I. Rothschild, Clifton E. Helman, Ralph Hornblower, Jr., W. Arthur Betz, William E. McDonald, Alan W. Petit, and Einor C. Palm...