Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three adventurers-a discredited sea captain (Oscar Homolka), a sniveling, cadging, little cockney (Barry Fitzgerald) and an English remittance man (Ray Milland) whose remittances have stopped coming-commandeer a Sydney-bound schooner, deprived of its crew by plague, and set off for South America to sell their stolen cargo and invest in mines. Their fates and that of Frances Farmer (a studio addition to the passenger list) are determined by a stop-over at an uncharted South Pacific island ruled with a rifle by a religious madman (Lloyd Nolan...
...August of last year Anderson was more inclined to believe that a new particle really existed than that the Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic ray particles are pulled toward the earth's poles by its magnetic field. Particles of high energy resist this pull, and so predominate in the region of the Equator. The latitude difference between Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons...
...existence. At the same time, Dr. Street of Harvard, who had been conducting independent researches of his own, also plumped for it. Fortheoretical reasons both Drs. Anderson and Street believe that the X-particle is not a part of the primary cosmic radiation, but arises from cosmic ray collisions in the upper air. An important question remained: What is the X-particle's mass? It appeared to be heavier than an electron but lighter than a proton. But this is a wide range, about as wide as between a pound...
...current Physical Review Dr. Street undertakes to answer the mass question-approximately, not exactly. He took 1,000 photographs of cosmic ray activity in a "cloud chamber," an apparatus in which water vapor condenses in the path of ionizing particles as droplets of fog which can be photographed. Dr. Street rigged his apparatus so that the condensing value would operate not instantly when an ionizing particle passed through, but one second later. This allowed the fog tracks to spread a little, enabling him to get a better count of the droplets...
...been beaten by Dartmouth and Army. The equalizing factor was that Harvard had beaten Princeton, and the only thing Harvard would rather do than beat Yale or Princeton is beat them both. It had not done so since 1915. Harvard drew first blood in the second quarter when Ray Daughters caught a forward pass and shook off two Yale tacklers, scored. In the next quarter Yale got moving, and the great Frank bounced off the Yale line to tie the score. But with seven minutes to play, Harvard's Francis Foley faked a smash at tackle and scuttled...