Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frenchmen still agree that the water cure is as much a treat as a treatment. From their beginnings they have resolutely tried to drown their ills-real or borrowed-in the country's 2,500 springs that are laced with such life-giving elements as arsenic, sulphur, carbon, magnesium and uranium. "More than one person sang the praises of wine," wrote French Poet Paul Valery. "I love water...
Telltale Band. Most important was proof that organic (carbon-hydrogen) compounds probably exist on Mars. Dr. William Sinton of the Smithsonian Institution started with the fact that compounds containing carbon, when joined to hydrogen, absorb infra-red radiation with a wave length of 3.46 microns. His first step was to look for this absorption band in infra-red light reflected from dry leaves, lichens and mosses, which are made almost entirely of carbon-hydrogen compounds. It showed up strongly...
...necessary because of the feebleness of Martian light, but at last the band appeared. Apparently, something on Mars absorbs infra-red in the same way that earthside vegetation does. Dr. Sinton thinks his observation is strong evidence that Mars has living organisms whose bodies are made of compounds containing carbon and hydrogen...
While Dorothy thumbed the Saturday Evening Post, her pilot-husband radioed ahead to Rawlins, Wyo. for the weather, learned that a vicious storm front was spreading across surrounding Carbon County. As they flew through the grey fringes of the storm at 8,200 ft., Dorothy heard the engines sputter; then her husband shouted: "Hang on, darling, we're going to crash...
Died. James Monroe Mathes, 68, pioneer (1923) radio advertiser (National Carbon Co.'s Eveready Hour) who sparked the first network-sponsored, sound-effects, man-in-the-street program, in 1933 launched his own agency (J. M. Mathes, Inc.); of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...