Word: xray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lies in one of the unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the X-ray." This was a bit too specific. Professor Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's famed radiation authority, stated that there are no unexplored frequency bands in the vicinity of the Xray...
Said she: "Unhealthy conditions, such as ulceration or inflammation which might lead to cancer, were found in about 25% of the volunteers. . . . Thus far, unsuspected early cancer has been found in four of the volunteers. These women have received adequate treatment, by operation . . . radium and Xray. I believe three of these women will be permanently cured. I am not so sure about the fourth...
...contemporary periodicals have had such an exciting career as McClure's Magazine. It launched the muckraking movement, first printed O. Henry and Willa Gather, popularized Stevenson, Kipling, Conan Doyle in the U. S., published the first magazine articles on the Xray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine, paved the way for modern, big-circulation magazines...
...Only three scientific means of treating cancer are Xray, surgery and radium. But by these three methods physicians have cured 30,000 cases of cancer in the last five years...
...scrap of human bone that Dr. Groves could safely snip from the boy was large enough to fill the space, so he procured a piece of ivory from a walrus tusk, carved it to order, planted it in the cavity. Last October, said Dr. Groves, "a fresh radiogram [Xray] showed that the ivory graft had remained without change as a strut round which human bone had been deposited." Since the operation the patient "has never had any disability or illness...