Word: dome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Ether Dome of Massachusetts General Hospital, a blond British electroencephalographer named William Grey Walter unveiled his invention-a yellow box, resembling a deep-freeze unit, full of vacuum tubes, condensers, switches, wires. Walter applied to a patient's head the electrodes of an electroencephalograph (a machine that traces the peaks and valleys of the brain waves, helps to diagnose epilepsy, brain tumors, etc.). Then he attached his analyzing machine to the electroencephalograph...
Interest was aroused, however, and individual as well as society financial support finally warranted purchase of a refractor with a 15-inch aperture. The lens arrived at Cambridge in December, 1846, was erected in a 30-feet dome, and thus the College Observatory was born. Obsolete as this ancient refractor now seems, it was instrumental in bringing the Observatory to the world's attention with the discovery of the eighth and ninth satellites of Saturn...
...there was nothing to indicate tonight that it would not--steel mills will be closing down, railroads curtailing their service and crippling effects will begin to be felt throughout the country. Already a "brownout" had been ordered in Washington, the seat of government, including the darkening of the Capitol dome...
Last week 4,000 top-rank U.S. scientists and medicos went to Massachusetts General to celebrate the centennial of Morton's and Warren's historic operation. After reverent visits to the famed Ether Dome, now a medical shrine, the scientists settled down, in a huge tent pitched outside the hospital, to a three-days' appraisal of the ether century. The consensus, as summed up by Dr. Henry Knowles Beecher, Massachusetts General's anesthetist in chief: Anesthesia "was perhaps man's greatest and most original discovery. . . . If, at a stroke, the world's poverty were...
...hill village of Shirakawa, Hikosaku Matsumoto, 62, is called "Hyakkan Jii San"-100-kan oldster-because of his boast that he can lift 100 kan (825 Ibs.). His undisciplined white beard and scholarly bald dome make him look more like an elderly monk than an athlete. His nickname delights him so much that, after the manner of Tony Galento's boxing trunks, he has "Hyakkan" written in Chinese characters down the front of his athletic blouse...