Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gist of M. de la Marti's plan was to establish a "World Record Service . . . for carrying out competitions in all fields of economic activity, with new and hitherto unknown stimulus, and with large cash prizes. . . . The journal or official organ will be the central supporting beam for the success of the competitions and announcements, and the financial part of the enterprise. Its circulation will be enormous. ... To facilitate the work of the World Record Service a HOUSE OF NATIONS will be founded in every country. . . . Here concise accounts will be given on conditions of welfare and economics...
This was the seed from which last week's fine death-ray story sprouted. Injury or death to small animals a few inches from the neutron beam's source was indeed a far cry from the pseudo-science reader's horrifying picture of deadly radiations capable of enflaming cities and wiping out their inhabitants at long range. Yet Dr. Lawrence's neutron beam, though designed only to harry atoms, is probably the nearest actual approach to the lethal ray of fiction. He decided therefore to take ample precautions. The control panel was moved 50 ft. from...
...experimenter in artificial radioactivity, whose 85-ton electromagnet frequently makes scientific news. Solemn young Dr. Lawrence would be horrified to find himself associated with the "death-rays"' of lurid pseudoscience. Actually he was only protecting himself and hi's co-workers from the effects of a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second generated with the help of his electromagnet for use in straightforward atomic experiments...
...Wright and Victor A. Wright (no kin) alternated at tending the fuel tanks, engines, temperature. On the bridge, First Officer Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan took turns at the controls with Second Officer George King. Directly behind sat Radio Officer William Turner Jarboe, maintaining constant touch with the directional radio beam the airliner follows. Standing nearby over a chart table was Chief Navigation Officer Frederick J. Noonan. Also there was the tight-mouthed, round-shouldered, meticulous man who is Pan American's No. 1 pilot. No. 1 Pilot. Son of a hardware man, Edwin Musick was born in St. Louis...
...neutrons as atom-wreckers are like wrestlers slippery with oil. They slide through the electronic field guarding the nucleus, do not swerve until they strike the hard core. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who has an 85-ton magnet to play with on the University of California campus, produced a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second by smashing lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma radiation from silver. For mathematical reasons that physicists find increasingly hard to translate into English, slow neutrons braked by a paraffin...