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Millikan Ray. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory (Pasadena) reported his five years' research upon a new ray, shorter, quicker, more penetrating than even the Xray. It will pierce two feet of lead. It reaches the earth continuously from surrounding space. Whence it comes, what it does to the earth, how and whither its vast power can be directed, Dr. Millikan could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Kansas City | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...word of mine can cast a single ray of light upon this dark situation, I shall be profoundly thankful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oracle | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Frank Sullivan has reported to the New York World a Munchausen-like anecdote concerning an Egyptian who conjures with his stomach. The man in question, Mr. Hadji All, has so far limited his performances to select audiences examining him and the wonder stomach through the medium of an X-ray machine, but the time cannot be long before he appears on the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GASTRIO HOUDINI | 12/10/1925 | See Source »

Bright Lights. Charles Ray has attempted to come back. He has picked one of his old country cousin stories with a tattered straw hat on its head. Into his peaceful rural life comes a cabaret girl from Manhattan. The story is trivial and- truth be told-Mr. Ray is not so good as he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...MAN?A little sin, a good deal of sorrow and a ray of sunlight under the Manhattan Elevated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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