Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every so often newspapers get steamed up about some mysterious new ray which will deal long-range death to men and animals, down airplanes or work other wholesale damage. Lately a ray said to stop gasoline engines and supposedly invented by no less a personage than Guglielmo Marconi stirred up a pother, which faded away when Marconi himself squelched it. Last week another exciting ray story cropped up in dispatches from Berkeley, Calif, which produced such headlines as NEW LETHAL RAY HURLED BY MAGNET, and NEW DEATH RAY TO AID MANKIND BEGINS ITS TEST...
With four veterans and one Sophomore in the starting lineup, Fesler will put an experienced aggregation on the floor. Capt. Leavitt White and Ray Lavietes, both lettermen of last season, will play the forward positions. Bill Gray will hold down the center post, while Jack Mason, converted from a forward, and Jack Dampeer, captain of the Freshman team last year, will be the starting guards...
Fesler's list of Varsity forwards now includes Captain Leavitt White, Ray Lavietes, George Lowman, Louis McGowan, Bill Shirk, and Arnold Litman. Centers--Bill Gray and Jack Herrick. Guards--Jack Dampeer, Jack Mason, Art Snell, Dick Wills, Byron Moser, Robert Stevenson...
...husband Jake a hunchback a year ago, Mrs. Boegler wrote Mrs. Oley, "Tonight I will pray to God to cause your boy to suffer great agony. I'll ask God to burn him with fever and lay the hand of death upon him." Ablino died. When Mrs. Will Ray cut off the Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned Mrs. Ray that she and her husband would get sick. Mr. Ray nearly died, of no apparent disease; Mrs. Ray last week...
...Stetson concluded, "Important changes in the electric and magnetic characteristics of the atmosphere and the earth in this region of the globe will prove a new incentive for geographical exploration in the future. Extensive journeys already made by cosmic ray specialists have yielded valuable results, and the future will see new tools and equipment accompanying an increasing band of workers into these newer fields of exploration...