Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard, brittle substance of the nature of a solid solution, consisting of iron with 2% or less of carbon...
...Boston, Drs. T. F. Hunter and S. G. Mudd experimented with carbon dioxide gas. Properly administered, they said, it would sober drunkards. Various mild tests seemed to uphold their theory. Last week, they executed an experiment which, they believed, would prove conclusive. Three policemen procured for them from the streets of Boston a drunkard known as "Case 11." He offered terrific resistance to restraint, but was finally subdued, passed into a coma. Reported the physicians...
...there was no response to shaking or supraorbital pressure. Carbon dioxide administration was then begun and continued for 30 minutes. During the middle of the administration, the patient began swearing and struggling and had to be held down. When the mask was removed at 3.46, he gave his name, address, and occupation...
Ordinary air is composed of four-fifths nitrogen and one-fifth oxygen and smaller amounts of other gases such as carbon dioxide. The oxygen content of air is the only part valuable to man in breathing. When men work in certain types of caissons, in diving suits or diving bells, they are subject to great air pressure. Under these circumstances, nitrogen goes into the tissues of the body. When the external pressure is released, as by coming out of a caisson or being raised to the surface of the water, the excess nitrogen in human tissues tends to form bubbles...
Alexander Woollcott-"A pale carbon copy of all the musical comedies produced in this town between...