Word: drs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heights in the upper air. Purpose: cosmic ray research. The balloons carry Geiger-Müller cosmic ray counters, barographs, automatic radios which send signals to a ground station every 15 seconds, recording the altitude (in terms of air pressure) and the intensity of the cosmic bombardment. Last week Drs. L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin reported that one cluster of six balloons had reached the remarkable height of 23 miles (about 120,000 ft.). This was believed to be a world record for sounding balloons...
...Drs. Curtiss and Astin found that cosmic rays were thickest twelve miles up, where the intensity is 200 times that at sea level. This agrees closely with the findings of Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan. who sent balloons to 92,000 ft., recorded a cosmic-ray peak...
Last week in Manhattan, at the 17th Annual Congress of Anesthetists new, safe drugs for relief of labor pains were enthusiastically discussed by Drs. S. Le Roy Sahler, chief of anesthesia in the Rochester, N. Y. General Hospital, Peter Graffagnino, head of the gynecology department of Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, and Louis Wralter Seyler of Commerce, Texas...
...John H. Dingle, Sc.D. and Drs. Sidney Farber and Marion Lee Connerley...
...required either frequent injection of androgen [male hormone] or the presence of a transplanted testis." It was discovered that the rate at which the tablets were absorbed ranged from 2% a month for the female hormones to 25% for the male hormones. Best way to insure adequate absorption, said Drs. Deanesly and Parkes, was to use a number of smaller, tablets rather than one large...