Word: ethereal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astounding Aquarius. The biggest astrological news was that the world was moving out of the brawling, nationalistic age of Pisces (the fish) and into the new, 2,156-year-cycle of Aquarius (the water-bearer). That meant a new era of "world brotherhood, flight and ether." ("We'll be weekending on the planets.") Said one astrologer: "It is here ... the developments will astound the world." Said another: "We are going to have rule by the masses...
...Tokoda's medieval brews. Into tubercular men he injected an acid mixed with infected bile. Once he squeezed a milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited to visiting Jap generals...
...University's chapter of Phi Beta Pi, a medical fraternity, had put new pledges through this initiation ritual. Robert Perry, a Navy V12 trainee, was no different from the others. But when his turn came last week, a spark caused by a short circuit in the coil ignited ether fumes from the bottle of collodion, set off a flash of blue flame that enveloped him. Perry leaped up wildly, ran smack into a wall. Several of the brothers grabbed him, rubbed out the flames with their hands, then rushed him to the University's hospital. Next day Robert...
...bring you the story of the Boston dentist who gave you ether. Before whom in all time surgery was agony. Since whom science has control of pain. It is almost needless to tell you that this man, whose contribution to human welfare is unparalleled in the history of the world, was himself ridiculed, burned in effigy, ruined, and eventually driven to despair and death by the beneficiaries of his revelation...
...tanks, jeeps, rifles, ration tins, bulldozers, first-aid kits, canteens. Everywhere lay the dead-weltering in the waves along the shore, lying heaped in ditches, sprawling on the beaches. Here & there in trees hung the shattered body of a paratrooper. In field hospitals, the wounded lay. The smell of ether mingled with the smell of earth. Probably no one yet knew the price that had been paid for the first week in Normandy...