Word: carbonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most hiccups can be cured in minutes or hours by holding the breath, drinking water, applying heat to the diaphragm or breathing into a paper bag (to raise the carbon dioxide content of the air breathed). But not Jack O'Leary's. Hiccuping that goes on for months or years can eventually kill the victim through exhaustion and starvation...
...bizarre call for water is part of an experiment being carried on by Chemistry Professor Willard F. Libby. He hopes to develop an atomic time scale for water samples similar to the radioactive carbon 14 calendar, which measures the age of prehistoric relics (TIME, June...
Chemist Libby's water clock will be based on the same principle as the carbon 14 calendar. Some ten miles high, in the stratosphere, cosmic rays stream in from outer space. With far more force than an atom-smasher, the cosmic rays collide with nitrogen atoms. The crash produces hydrogen, carbon 14 and a minute amount of radioactive tritium. The atoms of cosmic tritium join molecules of water vapor and fall to the earth in snow and rain...
...hastily switched a propeller to Slo-mo IV from her sister boat, one grease-monkey advised handsome Slo-mo IV Driver Stanley (Dollar Steamship Line) Dollar: "Remember, the lead is everything." Dollar roared out to challenge Miss Pepsi for the front spot. Suddenly the trailing Such Crust IV, a carbon copy of the Slo-mos, exploded in a flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water with a hopelessly...
...Story of Will Rogers (Warner) is an unusual Hollywood film biography It is both faithful to the facts of Cowboy-Humorist Rogers' life, and has in Will Rogers Jr., playing the title role, almost a carbon copy of his famous father...