Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Examiner's officials, shrinking from the public reaction against a good stunt gone sour, denied any actual prepayment to the diver, disavowed sponsorship of his plunge. Other newspapermen sympathized, because they knew who it was that had jumped, and why. He was Ray Wood, a professional diver from high bridges who had plunged safely from the 110-ft. Merchant's Bridge in St. Louis, twice from Steve Brodie's 165-ft. Brooklyn Bridge,* once from a 170-ft. Aurora Bridge over Lake Union at Seattle. Going off the 185-ft. San Francisco-Oakland Bridge was Wood...
...authority under the sun possess the power to root out any thinking, whether it be radical or reactionary. Authorities in the Middle Ages tried to root out heresy, only to see it spread like wildfire. The sole force that can root out erroneous thinking is the ultra-violet ray of truth. For "the vicious minorities whose motives are inimical to. . . the principles on which the Republic was founded" will never be shackled by a teachers' oath. These minorities are the heretics of today. And the Governor has decreed that we are afraid of heresy. It is an appalling state...
...squad now stands as follows: Pitchers:--Roy Moore, John Woodward; Catchers:--Bob Fulton, Bob Gorham, Peter Pratt; Infielders:--Vint Freedley, Charlie Lutz, Ray McPherson, Sam Merrill, Arthur Page, Bill Thomas, Bill Wood; Outfielders:--Charlie Curtis, Bart Kelley, Tor MacDonald...
Died. Wesley M. Coates, 29, codesigner of a new 1,200,000-volt X-ray machine for treating cancer in Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research; by electrocution, after brushing against a 5,000-volt feed-in wire; in his X-ray room...
Cancer Control. So eager was the U. S. medical profession to cooperate in this anti-cancer campaign that last week the four important U. S. organizations dealing with cancer-the American College of Surgeons, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society for the Control of Cancer-formed a Cancer Council, which will answer any reasonable question about cancer sent by doctor or layman to headquarters at No. 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Members of this Cancer Council are: Dr. Frank E. Adair, Memorial Hospital, New York...