Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain despatches may be believed, Dr. Fredet of l'Hopital de la Pitie (Paris) has evolved a new anesthetic. He calls it "sommifere." In doses of 10-15 cubic centimetres, it is injected into the veins after previous injections of morphine or scopolamine, produces anesthesia complete enough for the longest and most serious operation. "This sopo- rific has all the effectiveness of chloroform without its disadvan- tages." No sickness follows it. No ill effects on liver and kidneys. The patient remains plunged in torpor from 24 to 36 hours afterwards, but can be roused for a few minutes...
Vidar Jernberg, Swedish chemical engineer, makes thick and plentiful fogs with a two-foot machine, of value both in warfare and in agriculture. His "smoke buoy", when dropped upon the water, starts producing 35,000 cubic metres of smoke a minute, hiding objects 30 ft. away. The "smoke projector", for land work, generates fog much faster. Several European navies are now using his methods. Their pacific value lies in spreading smoke blankets over orchards, gardens and fields to prevent the ravages of frost. Radiation from the ground is checked...
...with certain social phenomena, according to Dr. T. Wingate Todd, Professor of Anatomy at Western Reserve University. Subjects for dissection usually come from among suicides, paupers, drunkards, criminals and other "social ineffectives." The average brain capacity in the dissecting rooms during the prosperous year of 1918 was 1,330 cubic centimeters. From 1913 to 1917, the average was 1400 c.c. In the acute depression of 1921, men of an average brain capacity of 1470 c. c. failed to survive. The average normal brain ranges from 1480 to 1500 c. c. while 1530 indicates high intelligence. Very low grade brains have...
...rare gases and earths, speaking last week before the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Washington, out lined the probable future developments of helium and the Government's program for it. The gas is going to waste in the U. S. at the rate of 500,000,000 cubic feet annually. It occurs as a constituent of the natural gas produced from wells in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas, in Oklahoma and in Kansas. These are, in fact, the only large sources in the world. There is enough gas available to keep filled, ready for service...
...grow and bloom weeks ahead of the usual flowering time. Still more miraculous, they are found to be immune to all the ordinary plant diseases that hamper indoor rose culture. A very small quantity of ether does the trick-about a tablespoonful in an air-tight chamber containing 27 cubic feet, or a cubic centimeter injected into the stem. The method is most successful with woody plants like the rose or lilac. All the latent buds or shoots are stimulated, instead of the few preponderant ones which develop naturally. This may lead to great economy in the cultivation of tuberous...