Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claimed Miaja's offensive was costing "astronomical losses." Miaja relaxed censorship to permit Madrid correspondents to cable human interest stories of the killing in action of three U. S. volunteers who died last week for Leftist Spain with their "home addresses not listed": Jean Bronstein, Dave Walbo and Ray Peters. Trooper Larry O'Toole of Jersey City said he was wounded not in action but emerging from a store, his tunic stuffed with tomatoes and a bottle of wine. Boasted Manhattan Negro Walter Garland, commander of a Leftist machine gun company: "We took three towns...
...country club swimming pool in St. Louis appeared Ray Woods, the professional high-diver who four months ago fractured his spine in a 187-ft. dive off the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (TIME, April 5). He could swim with his arms but his legs are still useless...
...broken, she insists that J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter accept. What Mary Smith does not know is that the young man is J. B. Ball's only son, rebelliously trying to make his own way in the world. What neither...
...principle underlies a technique, explained last week, for ferreting out defects in thick masses of steel. At the convention of the American Society for Testing Materials in Manhattan, Physicist E. V. Lange of Radium Chemical Co. demonstrated with a capsule containing one-tenth of a gram of radium. Gamma rays shooting out at a million or more volts passed through steel castings a foot thick, photographed the interior structure on X-ray films 10 by 12 in. in size. Tested by this method are steering posts of ships, turbines, valves, high-pressure steam pipes. Dr. Lange reported that in most...
...penetrating power. In Denver last week Dr. Street announced that it may be positive as well as negative, that in his opinion it is not a messenger from outer space but originates about ten miles up in the stratosphere, as the result of an impact delivered by a cosmic ray particle. What it is that gives birth to the new particle when struck is a matter of conjecture...